1. Peter John Hennessy, Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield, was born on 28 March 1947 and is an English historian and academic specialising in the history of government.
16 Facts About Peter Hennessy
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Peter Hennessy comes from a large Catholic family of Irish provenance.
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Peter Hennessy was brought up in large houses requisitioned by the local council, first in Allandale Avenue and then in Lyndhurst Gardens, Finchley, north London.
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Peter Hennessy attended the nearby Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School, and on Sundays he went to St Mary Magdalene Church, where he was an altar boy.
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Peter Hennessy was the subject of the first episode, first broadcast on 6 August 2007, of the BBC Radio 4 series The House I Grew Up In, in which he talked about his childhood.
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Peter Hennessy went on to study at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a BA in 1969 and a PhD in 1990.
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Peter Hennessy was a Kennedy Memorial Scholar at Harvard University from 1971 to 1972.
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Peter Hennessy was a journalist for the Times Higher Education Supplement from 1972 to 1974.
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Peter Hennessy was The Financial Times lobby correspondent at Westminster in 1976.
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In June 1977, Peter Hennessy accused Donald Beves of being the "fourth man" in the Cambridge Spy Ring, but Geoffrey Grigson and others quickly leapt to the defense of Beves, considering him uninterested in politics.
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Peter Hennessy was a regular presenter of Analysis on BBC Radio 4 from 1987 to 1992.
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Peter Hennessy co-founded the Institute of Contemporary British History in 1986.
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On 5 October 2010 the House of Lords Appointments Commission said that Peter Hennessy was to be a crossbench peer.
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Peter Hennessy was created a life peer on 8 November 2010, taking the title Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield, of Nympsfield in the County of Gloucestershire.
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On 7 May 2023, Peter Hennessy was the guest for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.
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Peter Hennessy is the author of numerous articles and of the following books:.