Maurice Towneley-O'Hagan, 3rd Baron O'Hagan

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Maurice Herbert Towneley Towneley-O'Hagan, 3rd Baron O'Hagan (20 February 1882-18 December 1961), was a British Liberal politician.

O'Hagan was the second son of Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Baron O'Hagan, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and his second wife Alice Mary, daughter and co-heiress of Colonel Charles Towneley, and succeeded in the barony on the death of his elder brother in 1900. He was Assistant Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty Lord Tweedmouth from 1906 to 1907 and served in the Liberal administrations of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and later H. H. Asquith as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1907 to 1910. Many years later, between 1950 and 1961, O'Hagan was a Deputy Speaker and Deputy Chairman of the House of Lords. He was also an Honorary Major in the Royal Horse Artillery (TA) and an Honorary Colonel in the 4th (Cadet) Battalion of the Essex Regiment and in the 6th Battalion of the Essex Regiment (TA). In 1909 he assumed by Royal license his maternal grandfather's surname of Towneley in addition to that of O'Hagan.

Lord O'Hagan married firstly the Hon. Frances Constance Maddalena, daughter of Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie, in 1911. She died in 1931. He married secondly Evelyn Violet, daughter of Harry Thornton Ross and widow of Henry Osbet Samuel Cadogan, in 1937. O'Hagan died in December 1961, aged 79, and was succeeded in the barony by his grandson Charles. Lady O'Hagan died in 1965.

[edit] References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Thomas Towneley O'Hagan	Baron O'Hagan 1900–1961	Succeeded by Charles Towneley Strachey