He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bebington from 1950 to 1964, and was made a life peer in 1964.

Oakshott was born in Cheshire on 8 November 1904, and attended the Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge.

He was then succeeded as MP by the future Chancellor and Foreign Secretary, Geoffrey Howe.

He was created a Baronet, of Bebington in the County Palatine of Chester, on 10 July 1959[4] 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.

[3] Lord Oakshott died at a hospital in Liverpool on 1 February 1975, aged 70.