Francis Hare, 6th Earl of Listowel

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 is now 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 sits as a crossbencher.

The Earl of Listowel
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
5 October 1998  11 November 1999
as a hereditary peer
Preceded byThe 5th Earl of Listowel
Succeeded bySeat abolished
Assumed office
11 November 1999
as an elected hereditary peer
Preceded bySeat created
Personal details
Born (1964-06-28) 28 June 1964
Political partyCrossbencher

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.

References

    • "DodOnline". Archived from the original on 8 February 2007. Retrieved 11 February 2007.
    • Biography - UK Parliament
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