Background
HAILSHAM, Quintin McGarel Hogg was born on October 9, 1907 in London. Son of the late Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, and Elizabeth Brown.
HAILSHAM, Quintin McGarel Hogg was born on October 9, 1907 in London. Son of the late Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, and Elizabeth Brown.
Eton College, and Christ Church, Oxford.
Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford 1931-1938, since 1961. Served war 1939-1945. Parliament. Under-Secretary to Air Ministry 1945.
First Lord of Admiralty 1956-1957.
Minister of Education 1957. Lord President, of Council 1957-1959, 1960-1964.
Chairman Conservative Party 1957-1959. Lord Privy Seal 1959-1960.
Minister for Science and Technology 1959-1964.
Leader of House of Lords 1960-1963. Secretary of State for Education and Science April-October 1964. Lord Chancellor 1970-1974, 1979-1987.
Minister responsible for dealing with unemployment in the North East 1963-1964.
Succeeded his father as 2nd Viscount Hailsham 1950, disclaimed title 1963. Rector, Glasgow University 1959-1962.
Chancellor, University of Buckingham since 1983. Honorary Doctor of Laws (Leeds) 1982, (Cambridge), (Polytechnic of Central London) 1989.
Honorary Doctorate.C.L. (Oxford) 1974, (Newcastle, Ulster, Sussex, C.N.A.A., Delhi, Saint Andrews).
House of Lords 1950-1963, since 1970.
Married Mary Evelyn Martin 1944 (died in 1978). Married Deirdre Shannon in 1986.