Hendrie Oakshott, Baron Oakshott

Hendrie Dudley Oakshott, Baron Oakshott (8 November 1904 – 1 February 1975), known as Sir Hendrie Oakshott, 1st Baronet, from 1959 to 1964, was a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bebington from 1950 to 1964, and was made a life peer in 1964.

Background Oakshott was born in Cheshire on 8 November 1904, and attended Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a lieutenant colonel in the British Army.

Oakshott was Comptroller of the Household from 1955 to 1957 and Treasurer of the Household from 1957 to 1959. and was further honoured when he was created a life peer as Baron Oakshott, of Bebington in the County Palatine of Chester on 21 August 1964. He served as a Deputy Speaker and Deputy Chairmen of Committees from 1967 to 1968. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son Anthony.