Name Peter Baron Party Conservative Party | Died July 5, 2009 Role Former Life peer | |
Books Perception and Reality: An Opinion Poll on Defence and Disarmament Education New College, Oxford, Shrewsbury School | ||
Previous office Life peer (1994–2009) | ||
Peter Allan Renshaw Blaker, Baron Blaker, (4 October 1922 – 5 July 2009) was an English Conservative politician.
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Early life
Blaker was born in Hong Kong, son of Cedric Blaker. He was educated at Shrewsbury School before being evacuated to Canada in 1939. There he took a degree in classics, before being commissioned in the Canadian Army. On return to England he went to New College, Oxford. He qualified as a lawyer, and later joined the Foreign Office.
Political career
In 1964 he was elected Member of Parliament for Blackpool South, which he represented until 1992. In Parliament, he served as a Minister for the Army (1972–74), Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1974 and 1979–81). He was a Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence from 29 May 1981, until 9 June 1983. He was sworn of the Privy Council in the 1983 Birthday Honours, and was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) on 21 July 1983.
House of Lords
On 10 October 1994 he was created a life peer as Baron Blaker, of Blackpool in the County of Lancaster and of Lindfield in the County of West Sussex.
Blaker married Jennifer Dixon in 1953; they had a son and two daughters.