Francis Hare, 6th Earl of Listowel

The Right Honourable The Earl of Listowel
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 31 July 1998 Hereditary Peerage
Preceded by	The 5th Earl of Listowel
Personal details
Born	(1964-06-28) 28 June 1964 (age 57)
Political party	Crossbencher

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 is now 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 sits as a crossbencher.

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.

References[]

• "DodOnline". Archived from the original on 8 February 2007. Retrieved 11 February 2007.
• Biography - UK Parliament

External links[]

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Listowel