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.

References

1. Retired under Section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.
2. "The Earl of Listowel". UK Parliament. Retrieved 21 July 2022.

Sources

• "DodOnline". Archived from the original on 8 February 2007. Retrieved 11 February 2007.
• Profile, members.parliament.uk. Accessed 17 December 2022.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Listowel

Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by William Hare	Earl of Listowel 1997–present	Incumbent Heir presumptive: Hon. Timothy Hare
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by William Hare	Baron Hare 1997–present Member of the House of Lords (1997–1999)	Incumbent Heir presumptive: Hon. Timothy Hare
Parliament of the United Kingdom
New office created by the House of Lords Act 1999	Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords under the House of Lords Act 1999 Sat as Baron Hare 1999–2022	Succeeded by The Lord Hampton