Peter Blaker

The Right Honourable
The Lord Blaker
KCMG PC
Blaker in 1978
Member of Parliament
for Blackpool South
In office
15 October 1964 – 16 March 1992
Preceded byRoland Robinson
Succeeded byNick Hawkins
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life peerage
10 October 1994 – 5 July 2009
Personal details
BornPeter Allan Renshaw Blaker
(1922-10-04)4 October 1922
British Hong Kong
Died5 July 2009(2009-07-05) (aged 86)
South Kensington, London, England
PartyConservative
Spouse
Jennifer Dixon
​
(m. 1953)​
Children3
ParentCedric Blaker (father)
EducationNew College, Oxford

Peter Allan Renshaw Blaker, Baron Blaker, KCMG, PC (4 October 1922 – 5 July 2009) was a British Conservative politician.

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 (1972–1974), Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1974 and 1979–1981). 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.

Coat of arms

Coat of arms of Peter Blaker
Coronet
A Coronet of a Baron
Crest
A horse's head Sable maned Or bridled Argent reined Ermine.
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.
Motto
Esto Quod Esse Videris (Be What You Seem To Be)
Orders
Order of St Michael & St George circlet (Appointed KCMG 1983)

Personal life and death

In 1953, Blaker married Jennifer Dixon, daughter of diplomat Pierson Dixon. They had one son and two daughters.

Blaker died from pneumonia at Cromwell Hospital in South Kensington, London, on 5 July 2009, aged 86.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Keele: Ministerial membership of MOD 1970-97". Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 26 April 2009.
  2. ↑ "Keele: Ministers who left the MoD who haven't gone elsewhere in Government". Archived from the original on 19 January 2009. Retrieved 26 April 2009.
  3. ↑ "No. 49375". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 June 1983. p. 1.
  4. ↑ "No. 49424". The London Gazette (Supplement). 21 July 1983. p. 9700.
  5. ↑ "No. 53818". The London Gazette. 13 October 1994. p. 14327.
  6. ↑ Debrett's Peerage. 2003. p. 164.
  7. ↑ "Lord Blaker (obituary)". The Telegraph. 7 July 2009. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
  8. ↑ "Blaker, Peter Allan Renshaw, Baron Blaker". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 10 October 2026.

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