Martin Peake, 2nd Viscount Ingleby
Martin Raymond Peake, 2nd Viscount Ingleby was a British hereditary peer and businessman.
Early life and education
Ingleby was the only son of Osbert Peake, created Viscount Ingleby in 1956, and his wife Lady Joan Capell, daughter of George Capell, 7th Earl of Essex.He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford. Prior to his disability he was a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards from 1945 to 1947. He was rendered a paraplegic early in life due to polio.
In 1955, he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. He succeeded to the viscountcy upon his father's death in 1966 and became a member of the House of Lords until the enactment of the House of Lords Act 1999.
Later life
A director of the Hargreaves Group from 1960 to 1980, Ingleby was also interested in forestry and conservation. He was a member of the planning committee for the North York Moors National Park, and was responsible for the planting of a row of lime trees at the entrance to the park, which he intended as a thanksgiving for God's deliverance of Britain during the two World Wars. He also served on the North Yorkshire County Council during the 1960s.Ingleby and Baroness Masham, who also used a wheelchair, took a prominent part in the House of Lords in the debate on the Disabled Persons Act 1970.
Marriage and children
Ingleby married Gladys Susan Landale in 1952, with whom he had five children:- Hon Richard Martin Herbert Peake
- Hon Fiona Catherine Peake married Gavin Tobias Alexander Winterbottom Horton in 1977
- Hon Sarah Rachel Peake married James Felton Hervey-Bathurst in 1982
- Hon Henrietta Cecilia Imogen Peake married James J. P. McNeile in 1990
- Hon Katharine Susan Emma Peake married James Freeman in 1996.
After the death of his first wife in 1996, Ingleby married Dobrila Radovic in 2003. They had no children.