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.