Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby PC (30 December 1897 - 11 October 1966) was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Minister of National Insurance and then as Minister of Pensions and National Insurance from 1951 to 1955. Peake was educated at Eton before training at Sandhurst. He served with the Coldstream Guards during World War I before joining the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry. He entered Christ Church, Oxford in 1919 and graduated in history in 1921. In 1923 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. On 19 June 1922, he married Lady Joan Capell (a younger daughter of George Capell, 7th Earl of Essex) and they had five children. One of his daughters, Sonia, married David Hay, 12th Marquess of Tweeddale.