David Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham

The Right Honourable The Lord Windlesham CVO PC FBA
Lord Privy Seal & Leader of the House of Lords
In office 23 May 1973 – 4 March 1974
Prime Minister	Edward Heath
Preceded by	The Earl Jellicoe
Succeeded by	The Lord Shepherd
Personal details
Born	23 January 1932
Died	21 December 2010 Aged 78
Alma mater	Trinity College, Oxford

David James George Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham and Baron Hennessy CVO PC FBA (28 January 1932 – 21 December 2010) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who held visiting professorships at various universities.

Hennessy, an Anglo-Irish peer, was educated at Ampleforth College and Trinity College, Oxford, earning a Master of Arts in Jurisprudence in 1957. He did his National Service with the Grenadier Guards in Tripoli.

He was elected to Westminster City Council in 1958 to 1962, unsuccessfully contested Tottenham in 1959, and entered the House of Lords as the 3rd Baron Windlesham upon his father's death in 1962. He joined the Government as Minister of State in the Home Office in 1970 to 1972; and from 1972 to 1973, in the Northern Ireland Office, after which he became Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords in June 1973 until October 1974. He was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 1981 New Year's Honours. On 16 November 1999, he was created Baron Hennessy, of Windlesham in the County of Surrey after the House of Lords Act 1999, so that he could continue sitting in the Lords.

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