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He had already been created Baron Hailsham, of Hailsham in the County of Sussex, in 1928, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [2] Hogg was the son of the merchant and philanthropist Quintin Hogg , seventh son of Sir James Hogg, 1st Baronet , whose eldest son James McGarel-Hogg, 2nd Baronet was created Baron Magheramorne in the Peerage of ...
Hailsham died at his home in Hailsham, East Sussex, (which he had bought in 1917 after taking silk), on 16 August 1950, aged 78. He was buried in the churchyard of All Saints', Herstmonceux. The title passed to his son Quintin. [13] [1] His estate was valued for probate at £225,032 18s. 2d (around £7m at 2018 prices). [1] [3]
In 1920, Hampton & Sons', Estate Agents & Auctioneers, moved to 20 St James's Square, London W.1. During the 1920s, the successful auction house arm was involved in the sale of, amongst other things, the Michelham Collection in 1926 (when the record auction price of 74,000 guineas was achieved for the painting 'Pinkie' by Sir Thomas Lawrence ...
Hailsham Railway station outlived the rest of the Cuckoo Line by three years, the section north of Hailsham closing to passenger traffic in 1965. The track was retained with a weekly freight service until April 1968, when a bridge at nearby hamlet Horsebridge was damaged by a road vehicle. With the whole line due for closure, the damaged ...
Reeds Rains is an estate agency operating in the UK. The firm has its origins in two companies; Samuel Rains and Son and Reeds. It was acquired by LSL Property Services in 2005 and was, at that time, the largest firm of estate agents in the north of England.
He lost his 4000 acres estate in Tanzania to the policy of Africanisation of President Julius Nyerere in 1974. [22] The following year, in 1975, he sold Kier House and 15,000 acres (6,100 ha) of land to a Arab syndicate led by Mahdi Al Tajir , the then United Arab Emirates Ambassador to the United Kingdom for £2 million (equivalent to £21.19 ...
Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone KG, CH, PC, FRS [2] (9 October 1907 – 12 October 2001), known as the 2nd Viscount Hailsham between 1950 and 1963, at which point he disclaimed his hereditary peerage, was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician.
His thorough presentation of the case for rearmament in 1935, his son argued, defeated pacifism and secured a victory that allowed rearmament to move ahead. [60] On 31 July 1934, the Cabinet approved a report that called for expansion of the Royal Air Force to the 1923 standard by creating 40 new squadrons over the next five years. [61]