Francis Hare, 6th Earl of Listowel explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Earl of Listowel
Office1:Member of the House of Lords
Status1:Lord Temporal
Term Label1:as a hereditary peer
Term Start1:5 October 1998
Term End1:11 November 1999
Predecessor1:The 5th Earl of Listowel
Successor1:Seat abolished
Term Label2:as an elected hereditary peer
Term Start2:11 November 1999
Term End2:21 July 2022 [1]
1Blankname2:Election
1Namedata2:1999
Predecessor2:Seat established
Successor2:The Lord Hampton
Birth Date:28 June 1964
Party:Crossbencher

Francis Michael Hare, 6th Earl of Listowel (born 28 June 1964), styled Viscount Ennismore until 1997, is an Irish and British peer. He first sat in the House of Lords by right of his United Kingdom peerage of Baron Hare and was later one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, where he sat as a crossbencher. He retired from the House on 21 July 2022.[2]

Lord Listowel is a member of the Ascendancy, the old Anglo-Irish ruling class.

The son of William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel, and Pamela Mollie Day, and nephew of John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham, he was educated at Westminster School and Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, where he graduated with a BA degree in English literature in 1992. In 1997, he succeeded to his father's titles. The earldom is named after Listowel, a town in the north of County Kerry in Ireland.

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Notes and References

  1. Retired under Section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.
  2. Web site: The Earl of Listowel. UK Parliament. 21 July 2022.