Background
Hazlerigg was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Grey Hazlerigg, and Jane Edith Orr-Ewing, daughter of Sir Archibald Orr-Ewing, 1st Baronet.
cricketer High Sheriff of Leicestershire
Hazlerigg was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Grey Hazlerigg, and Jane Edith Orr-Ewing, daughter of Sir Archibald Orr-Ewing, 1st Baronet.
Sir Arthur Hesilrige, 2nd Baronet, was an ancestor. He played first-class cricket for Leicestershire from 1907 to 1910, captaining the county during that period. He made 65 appearances for the county.
He later served as High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1909 and as Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire from 1925 to 1949.
On 12 February 1945 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Hazlerigg, of Noseley in the County of Leicester, for his services to the county of Leicestershire. Lord Hazlerigg married Dorothy Rachel Buxton, daughter of John Henry Buxton, in 1903.
Lady Hazlerigg died in 1972. He stood for the Conservatives in 1906 but was unsuccessful.