The Lord Taunton | |
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 Lord Taunton (1855) byCharles Baugniet. | |
| President of the Board of Trade | |
| In office 29 August 1838 – 30 August 1841 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Viscount Melbourne |
| Preceded by | Charles Poulett Thomson |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Ripon |
| In office 22 July 1847 – 21 February 1852 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | Lord John Russell |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Clarendon |
| Succeeded by | J. W. Henley |
| Secretary of State for the Colonies | |
| In office 21 November 1855 – 21 February 1858 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Viscount Palmerston |
| Preceded by | Sir William Molesworth, Bt |
| Succeeded by | Lord Stanley |
| Chief Secretary for Ireland | |
| In office 1846 – 22 July 1847 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | Lord John Russell |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Lincoln |
| Succeeded by | Sir William Somerville |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1798-08-15)15 August 1798 Marylebone, London, England |
| Died | 13 July 1869(1869-07-13) (aged 70) Belgrave Square, London, England |
| Resting place | Over Stowey,Somerset, England |
| Party | Whig Liberal Party |
| Spouse(s) | (1) Frances Baring (1813–1850) (2) Lady Mary Howard (d. 1892) |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton,PC (/læbuːˈʃɛər/; 15 August 1798 – 13 July 1869) was a BritishWhig andLiberal Party politician of the mid-19th century.
Labouchere was born in London into a prominent family,[1] the son of Peter Cesar Labouchere ofHylands, a Dutch-born banker of FrenchHuguenot ancestry who had settled in England, and his wife Dorothy Elizabeth, daughter ofSir Francis Baring. He was educated atWinchester College andChrist Church, Oxford, where he took his B.A. (1821) and his M.A. (1828).[1]
In 1826, Labouchere becameMP forSt Michael, as a Whig.[1] In 1830, he moved to theTaunton seat, which he held until 1859. In 1835 he was opposed byBenjamin Disraeli for the Taunton seat; Labouchere won by 452 votes to 282. He was first appointed to office byLord Grey in 1832, serving asCivil Lord of the Admiralty .[1] After beginning the secondMelbourne ministry asMaster of the Mint,Privy Counsellor, andVice-President of the Board of Trade (and, later,Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies), Labouchere was raised to a cabinet post,President of the Board of Trade, which he held from 1839 until the Melbourne government fell in 1841.[1]
When the Whigs, now led byLord John Russell, returned to office in 1846, Labouchere returned to the cabinet, this time asChief Secretary for Ireland. Under his administration the worst effects of theGreat Irish Famine began to be felt in Ireland. The following year, he once again became President of the Board of Trade, and stayed in that post until Russell's government fell in 1852.[1] From 1853 to 1854 he sat on theRoyal Commission on the City of London.[2]Labouchere's final cabinet posting came during the firstPalmerston ministry, for which he served asSecretary of State for the Colonies from 1855 to 1858.[1] In 1859, Labouchere was raised to the peerage asBaron Taunton, of Taunton in the County of Somerset.[3][4] Between 1864 and 1868 the then Lord Taunton chaired theSchools Enquiry Commission.
In 1840 Laboucheremarried his first cousin Frances, daughter ofSir Thomas Baring. They had three daughters:
Frances Labouchere died in May 1850, aged 36, in premature childbirth.[5]
In 1852 Labouchere married Lady Mary Howard (1823–1892), a daughter of theEarl of Carlisle. There were no children from this marriage.[1] Lady Mary was buried atSt Mary's Church, Charlynch, Somerset where a reredos was erected in 1893 in her memory.[6]
Taunton died in July 1869, aged 70, athis London house inBelgrave Square.[1] He was buried near hiscountry houseQuantock Lodge atOver Stowey. As he had no sons, the barony became extinct on his death.[1] His nephew, alsoHenry Labouchere, inherited part of his fortune, and later became a well-known newspaper editor and politician.[1]
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forMitchell 1826–1830 With:William Leake | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forTaunton 1830–1859 With:Edward Thomas Bainbridge, 1830–1842 Sir Thomas Colebrooke, Bt, 1842–1852 Arthur Mills, 1852–1853 Sir John William Ramsden, 1853–1857 Arthur Mills, 1857–1859 | Succeeded by |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by | Vice-President of the Board of Trade 1835–1839 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | President of the Board of Trade 1839–1841 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Chief Secretary for Ireland 1846–1847 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | President of the Board of Trade 1847–1852 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Secretary of State for the Colonies 1855–1858 | Succeeded by |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| New creation | Baron Taunton 1859–1869 | Title extinct |
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