Former Tory Lord Chancellor Lord Hailsham was being buried today in a private family service in Sussex.
The 94-year-old Tory peer died at his London home earlier this month, following a long illness.
He was due to be buried this afternoon at a service attended by family and friends at Herstmonceux Church, near Hailsham.
A public memorial service to the Parliamentarian is expected to be held in London in January.
Lord Hailsham entered politics in 1938 when he won the Oxford seat, having been educated at the city's university.
He later challenged Alec Douglas Home for the Tory party leadership in 1963 but narrowly lost the contest.
He became the longest-serving Lord Chancellor of the 20th Century after taking on the role twice, from 1970-74 and 1979-87.
The father of Tory MP Douglas Hogg, Lord Hailsham was widely acknowledged as one of the few members of Margaret Thatcher's government she had been unwilling to take on.
Prior to that he served in Edward Heath's Cabinet.
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