Hendrie Dudley Oakshott, Baron Oakshott (8 November 1904 – 1 February 1975), known as Sir Hendrie Oakshott, 1st Baronet, from 1959 to 1964, was a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bebington from 1950 to 1964, and was made a life peer in 1964.

Oakshott was born in Cheshire on 8 November 1904, and attended the Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge.^[1][2] He was a lieutenant colonel in the British Army.^[1]

At the 1950 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Bebington constituency in the Wirral Peninsula, on Merseyside. He held his seat through three further general elections.^[3]

Oakshott was Comptroller of the Household from 1955 to 1957 and Treasurer of the Household from 1957 to 1959.^[1] He served as a parliamentary private secretary to Selwyn Lloyd from 1959 to 1962, first when Lloyd was Foreign Secretary, and then when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer.^[3] He was also a member of the British delegation to the Council of Europe from 1952 to 1958.^[3]

Oakshott retired from the House of Commons at the 1964 general election. He was then succeeded as MP by the future Chancellor and Foreign Secretary, Geoffrey Howe.

He was created a Baronet, of Bebington in the County Palatine of Chester, on 10 July 1959^[4] and was further honoured when he was created a life peer as Baron Oakshott, of Bebington in the County Palatine of Chester on 21 August 1964.^[5] He served as a Deputy Speaker and Deputy Chairmen of Committees from 1967 to 1968.^[3]

Oakshott married Joan Withington in 1928, and they had two sons.^[3]

Lord Oakshott died at a hospital in Liverpool on 1 February 1975, aged 70.^[6][7] He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son Anthony.^[3]