1965 Fredericton Convocation
Hogg, Quintin McGarel
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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Quintin McGarel Hogg
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Source: UA PC-2 no.19
Citation:
CONVOCATION, OCTOBER, 1965
QUINTIN McGAREL HOGG
to be Doctor of Laws
In the Rt. Hon. Quintin Hogg, former 2nd Viscount Hailsham, we behold a paragon of the British Conservative.
Son of a Lord Chancellor of England, scholar of Eton and Christchurch (where he attained first-class honours in Classics), he went on to become Fellow of All Souls, Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, Queen's Counsel, and for twelve years member of Parliament for Oxford City. As a soldier in arms he was among the first of the "Desert Rats" and, soldiering for his political causes, he has given more knocks than he has taken, not a few in vindication of Sir Samuel Hoare and Chamberlain over Munich, of Eden over Suez, of Macmillan over Profumo and, against all comers, of R.A. Butler.
His motto might well be the title of one of his earlier books, The Left was never Right, for with inflexible pugnacity he has fought both for the Right and on the Right, as he sees it, the latter Right being the Conservative ideal that the State was made for man - and not for doctrinaires of the Socialist party.
His zeal has cost him supporters in his own ranks and made him anathema to his opponents. But his integrity, which is rooted deep in his religion, is challenged by none. A ringing chairman of the Conservative Party Organization, he has held a handful of cabinet posts, some conspicuously ad hoc, such as the Ministries "with special responsibility for sport" and "for unemployment in the North East." For emergencies, indeed, he carries the inspiring aplomb of a Mountbatten. And just as, when the military situation was desperate, it was "Send for Dickie" so, when Conservative fortunes were at their darkest, "Let Quintin do it" was the cry.
Formidable in debate, trenchant on paper, irresistible when great occasions called for great oratory, he always knew his arena was the House of Commons. When yet a callow undergraduate he is credited with censuring his illustrious father for accepting an hereditary peerage, since it would relegate the ambitious elder son to what that tyro was provoked to term "The Ghetto of the Lords." This hideous exile he did endure for thirteen years, creditable to himself and invaluable to his party, and for the last three thereof was Leader of the House of Peers.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
QUINTIN McGAREL HOGG
to be Doctor of Laws
In the Rt. Hon. Quintin Hogg, former 2nd Viscount Hailsham, we behold a paragon of the British Conservative.
Son of a Lord Chancellor of England, scholar of Eton and Christchurch (where he attained first-class honours in Classics), he went on to become Fellow of All Souls, Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, Queen's Counsel, and for twelve years member of Parliament for Oxford City. As a soldier in arms he was among the first of the "Desert Rats" and, soldiering for his political causes, he has given more knocks than he has taken, not a few in vindication of Sir Samuel Hoare and Chamberlain over Munich, of Eden over Suez, of Macmillan over Profumo and, against all comers, of R.A. Butler.
His motto might well be the title of one of his earlier books, The Left was never Right, for with inflexible pugnacity he has fought both for the Right and on the Right, as he sees it, the latter Right being the Conservative ideal that the State was made for man - and not for doctrinaires of the Socialist party.
His zeal has cost him supporters in his own ranks and made him anathema to his opponents. But his integrity, which is rooted deep in his religion, is challenged by none. A ringing chairman of the Conservative Party Organization, he has held a handful of cabinet posts, some conspicuously ad hoc, such as the Ministries "with special responsibility for sport" and "for unemployment in the North East." For emergencies, indeed, he carries the inspiring aplomb of a Mountbatten. And just as, when the military situation was desperate, it was "Send for Dickie" so, when Conservative fortunes were at their darkest, "Let Quintin do it" was the cry.
Formidable in debate, trenchant on paper, irresistible when great occasions called for great oratory, he always knew his arena was the House of Commons. When yet a callow undergraduate he is credited with censuring his illustrious father for accepting an hereditary peerage, since it would relegate the ambitious elder son to what that tyro was provoked to term "The Ghetto of the Lords." This hideous exile he did endure for thirteen years, creditable to himself and invaluable to his party, and for the last three thereof was Leader of the House of Peers.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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