Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Lord Blaker | |
Office: | Member of Parliament for Blackpool South |
Term Start: | 15 October 1964 |
Term End: | 16 March 1992 |
Predecessor: | Roland Robinson |
Successor: | Nick Hawkins |
Office1: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
Term Start1: | 10 October 1994 |
Term End1: | 5 July 2009 Life peerage |
Birth Name: | Peter Allan Renshaw Blaker |
Birth Date: | 1922 10, df=y |
Birth Place: | British Hong Kong |
Party: | Conservative |
Children: | 3 |
Parents: | Cedric Blaker (father) |
Education: | Shrewsbury School |
Alma Mater: | New College, Oxford |
Peter Allan Renshaw Blaker, Baron Blaker, (4 October 1922 – 5 July 2009) was a British Conservative politician.
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.
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,[1] until 9 June 1983.[2] 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.
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.
Crest: | A horse's head Sable maned Or bridled Argent reined Ermine. |
Coronet: | A Coronet of a Baron |
Escutcheon: | Per pale Argent and Or on a chevron Sable between three martlets volant Azure each holding in the beak a rose slipped Gules seeded Or two blackamoor heads couped Argent the ears ringed Or between three Ermine spots Argent. |
Supporters: | Dexter a wildcat guardant Or sinister a Chinese dragon also Or.[3] |
Orders: | Order of St Michael & St George circlet (Appointed KCMG 1983) |
Motto: | Esto Quod Esse Videris (Be What You Seem To Be) |
In 1953, Blaker married Jennifer Dixon, daughter of diplomat Pierson Dixon. They had one son and two daughters.[4]