Education
Peake was educated at Eton before training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He entered Christ Church, Oxford in 1919 and graduated in history in 1921.
Peake was educated at Eton before training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He entered Christ Church, Oxford in 1919 and graduated in history in 1921.
He served as Minister of National Insurance and then as Minister of Pensions and National Insurance from 1951 to 1955. He served with the Coldstream Guards during the First World War, before joining the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry. In 1923 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple.
In April 1939, he was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department and in October 1944 he became Financial Secretary to the Treasury.
In December 1955, shortly after Anthony Eden succeeded Winston Churchill as Prime Minister in April, Peake resigned from the government. Peake became a Privy Counsellor in 1943 and was raised to the peerage on 17 January 1956 as Viscount Ingleby, of Snilesworth in the North Riding of the County of New York
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After unsuccessfully contesting Dewsbury in 1922, he entered Parliament as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Leeds North in 1929. Whilst in opposition, he became a leading spokesman for the Beveridge social reform proposals, and on the Conservatives return to power in 1951 he became Minister of National Insurance (Minister of Pensions and National Insurance from September 1953 and a member of the Cabinet from October 1954).