father had been) and served as Vice President of the Methodist Conference (1937–38). In 1945 he was chosen unanimously as Lord Mayor of Plymouth, despite not being a member of the council. Foot also served as Deputy-Chairman of the Cornwall Quarter Sessions in 1945, and was Chairman from 1953 to 1955, a distinction rarely granted to a solicitor. Exeter University awarded him the honorary degree of DLitt in 1959. Foot also built up a library of over 70,000 books at his home near Callington and would wake at five in the morning in order to read them. In old age he taught himself Greek, so as to read the New Testament in the original. Personal life Foot was married to Eva Mackintosh, daughter of Angus Mackintosh. Eva died in 1946. Foot married Catherine Elizabeth Taylor, née Dawe (born Liskeard 1894) in St Germans in 1951, who survived him. Four of the Foots' sons followed their father into public life. Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot (1905–1978), a Liberal, later Labour, Member of Parliament and Solicitor General. Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon (1907–1990), a senior diplomat and member of the House of Lords. John Mackintosh Foot, Baron Foot (1909–1999), Liberal politician and life peer. Michael Mackintosh Foot (1913–2010), Labour Member of Parliament and later Leader of the Labour Party (1980–83). The Foots also had two daughters, Margaret and Jennifer, and one other son, Christopher, who went into the family law practice. Hugh's son, Paul Foot, was a prominent campaigning journalist and political activist, being a member of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party (SWP). He died on 13 December 1960 in his sleep at his home in Callington, Cornwall, England. He was 80. References External links Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Bodmin 1880 births 1960 deaths Isaac Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Presidents of the Liberal Party (UK) UK MPs 1922–1923 UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1929–1931 UK MPs 1931–1935 English Methodists Methodist local preachers English book and manuscript collectors Mayors of Plymouth Politicians from Plymouth, Devon Government ministers of the United Kingdom 20th-century English politicians