Martin Peake, 2nd Viscount Ingleby

Martin Raymond Peake, 2nd Viscount Ingleby (31 May 1926 – 14 October 2008) was a British peer and business man. He was the son of Osbert Peake, created Viscount Ingleby in 1956, and his wife Lady Joan Capell.

Peake was rendered a paraplegic early in life due to polio. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford, and despite his disability, was a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards from 1945 to 1947. In 1955, he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. He married Gladys Susan Landale (died 1996) in 1952, by whom he had five children:

• Hon. Richard Martin Herbert Peake (7 August 1953 – 19 July 1975)
• Hon. Fiona Catherine Peake (born 24 January 1955)
• Hon. Sarah Rachel Peake (born 27 November 1958)
• Hon. Henrietta Cecilia Imogen Peake (born 23 October 1961)
• Hon. Katharine Susan Emma Peake (born 23 December 1963)

A director of the Hargreaves Group from 1960 to 1980, Peake 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. He succeeded his father as Viscount Ingleby in 1965.

Ingleby and Baroness Masham, who also uses a wheelchair, took a prominent part in the House of Lords in the debate on the Disabled Persons Act 1970. In 1975, he suffered a personal tragedy when his only son, Richard, fell from Beachy Head and was killed; the coroner's inquest recorded an open verdict.

After the death of his first wife in 1996, Ingleby married Dobrila Radovic in 2003. They had no children and the peerage became extinct on his death in 2008.

References

• Yorkshire Post obituary