Francis Hare, 6th Earl of Listowel

For other people named Francis Hare, see Francis Hare (disambiguation).

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]

The Right Honourable The Earl of Listowel
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer 12 March 1997 – 11 November 1999
Preceded by	The 5th Earl of Listowel
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
as an elected hereditary peer 11 November 1999 – 21 July 2022 [1]
Election	1999
Preceded by	Seat established
Succeeded by	The Lord Hampton
Personal details
Born	(1964-06-28) 28 June 1964 (age 60)
Political party	Crossbencher

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.