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Francis Hare, 6th Earl of Listowel

Francis Hare, 6th Earl of Listowel

Irish and British peer (born 1964)

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]

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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.

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

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