{{Short description|British politician (1925–2013)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable | name = The Lord Hayhoe | honorific_suffix = PC | office1 = Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Army | prime_minister1 = Margaret Thatcher | predecessor1 = Robert Brown | successor1 = Philip Goodhart | term_start1 = 4 May 1979 | term_end1 = 5 January 1981 | office2 = Member of Parliament <br /> for Brentford and Isleworth | predecessor2 = Constituency created | successor2 = Nirj Deva | term_start2 = 28 February 1974 | term_end2 = 16 March 1992 | office3 = Member of Parliament <br /> for Heston and Isleworth | predecessor3 = Reader Harris | successor3 = Constituency abolished | term_start3 = 18 June 1970 | term_end3 = 8 February 1974 | office4 = Member of the House of Lords | status4 = Lord Temporal | term_label4 = Life peerage | term_start4 = 21 August 1992 | term_end4 = 7 September 2013 | image = The Lord Hayhoe.jpg | birth_name = Bernard John Hayhoe | birth_date = {{birth date|1925|8|8|df=yes}} | birth_place = Croydon, Surrey, England | death_date = {{death date and age|2013|9|7|1925|8|8|df=yes}} | death_place = Wimbledon, London, England | party = Conservative | spouse = {{marriage|Anne Thornton|1962|2012|end = died}} | children = 3 }}
'''Bernard John Hayhoe, Baron Hayhoe''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|PC}} (8 August 1925 – 7 September 2013) was a British Conservative politician who was a Member of Parliament from 1970 to 1992.
==Early life== Hayhoe was born in Croydon on 8 August 1925, and attended Stanley Technical School, South Norwood.<ref name = ODNB>{{cite ODNB|title = Hayhoe, Bernard John [Barney], Baron Hayhoe (1925–2013), politician|last = Garnett|first = Mark|authorlink = Mark Garnett|date = 2017|doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/107848}}</ref> He left school at 16 to take up an apprenticeship in a toolroom and studied at Borough Polytechnic.<ref name = ODNB/> He then joined the Ministry of Supply as a weapons engineer in the armaments department and later moved to the Inspectorate of Armaments.<ref name=Telegraph>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/10297249/Lord-Hayhoe.html Telegraph Obituary]. Retrieved 10 September 2013</ref>
==Political career== Hayhoe was elected the national chairman of the Young Conservatives in 1952 and left the civil service to contest Lewisham South at the 1964 election.<ref name = ODNB/> He then worked for the Conservative Research Department. He was selected as the candidate for Heston and Isleworth for the 1970 election in place of Reader Harris, who was then facing criminal charges.<ref name = ODNB/> Although Harris was acquitted before the election, Hayhoe remained the candidate.<ref name = ODNB/>
Hayhoe was the Member of Parliament for Heston and Isleworth from 1970 until February 1974, then for Brentford and Isleworth from February 1974 until he retired at the 1992 general election.<ref name = ODNB/> He had ministerial responsibility for the Army (1979–1981), the Civil Service Department (1981), the Civil Service (1981–1985) and the DHSS (1985–1986). He was on the moderate, left wing of the party and supported Michael Heseltine in his leadership challenge to Margaret Thatcher.<ref name = ODNB/>
He was appointed as a Privy Councillor in 1985,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=50154 |date=15 June 1985 |page=1 |supp=y}}</ref> knighted in 1987<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=50873 |date=27 March 1987 |page=4181 |supp=y}}</ref> and made a life peer on 21 August 1992 as '''Baron Hayhoe''', of Isleworth in the London Borough of Hounslow.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=53030 |date=26 August 1992 |page=14437}}</ref>
==Personal life and death== In 1962, Hayhoe married Anne Thornton (d. 2012), and they had three children.<ref name = ODNB/> He died from cerebrovascular disease at his Wimbledon home on 7 September 2013, at the age of 88.<ref name = ODNB/>
==References== {{reflist}} *Times Guide to the House of Commons 1987 *{{Rayment|date=February 2012}} *{{Rayment-hc|date=March 2012}} *[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/10297249/Lord-Hayhoe.html Telegraph Obituary Lord Hayhoe]
== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-barney-hayhoe | Barney Hayhoe }}
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