The Lord Lisgar | |
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| 2ndGovernor General of Canada | |
| In office 2 February 1869 – 25 June 1872 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | Sir John A. Macdonald |
| Preceded by | The Viscount Monck |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Dufferin |
| 12thGovernor of New South Wales | |
| In office 1861–1867 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Preceded by | Sir William Denison |
| Succeeded by | The Earl Belmore |
| Chief Secretary for Ireland | |
| In office 1 March 1853 – 30 January 1855 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Earl of Aberdeen |
| Preceded by | Lord Naas |
| Succeeded by | Edward Horsman |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1807-08-31)31 August 1807 |
| Died | 6 October 1876(1876-10-06) (aged 69) Bailieborough,County Cavan, Ireland |
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| Education | Eton College |
| Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
John Young, 1st Baron LisgarGCB GCMG PC (31 August 1807 – 6 October 1876), known from 1848 to 1870 asSir John Young,2nd Baronet, was a British diplomat and politician who served as the secondgovernor general of Canada from 1869 to 1872. He previously served as the 12thgovernor of New South Wales, from 1861 to 1867, and asChief Secretary for Ireland, from 1853 to 1855.
Young was born into anAnglo-Irish family inBombay, India, eldest son ofSir William Young, 1stBaronet ofBailieborough Castle, who was a director of theEast India Company. He was educated atEton andCorpus Christi College, Oxford, graduating in 1829 and wascalled to the bar in 1834. He married Adelaide Annabella Tuite Dalton in 1835.[1]
In 1831 he became aMember of Parliament (MP), as the member forCavan in theHouse of Commons of the United Kingdom, a position he held for 24 years. AConservative, in 1841 Young was a Lord of the Treasury forSir Robert Peel, Secretary of the Treasury in 1844. Young stayed loyal to Peel when the party split over the repeal of theCorn Laws. He became aPeelite and was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1852 to 1855.[2] Young was appointedLord High Commissioner to theIonian Islands in 1855. His secret despatches recommending that the islands become a British colony were leaked, leading to his recall in 1859.[1]
Young was appointedGovernor of New South Wales in 1860 and was immediately confronted by a crisis stemming from the attempt by the Secretary for Lands,John Robertson, to push radical[clarification needed]land legislation through theParliament. This legislation was passionately opposed by the majority of theLegislative Council. Young agreed to the request of thePremier,Charles Cowper, to swamp the council with new 21 appointees to get the legislation through, although in fact sufficient members of the Council resigned that a quorum could not be formed, forcing it to be prorogued and replaced by a new Council with appointed life members. In due course this passed the land legislation. The rest of his term in New South Wales was less eventful.[1]
Young assumed the office ofGovernor General of Canada in 1868, when it was vacated by fellowIrishman,the 4th Viscount Monck, but did not officially take up the position until his swearing in on 2 February 1869. After the end of his term in 1872, he returned to Ireland.
He was raised to thepeerage as Baron Lisgar, of Lisgar andBailieborough, in the County of Cavan, on 26 October 1870.[3]
He died on 6 October 1876 at Lisgar House (also known asCastle House), nearBailieborough inCounty Cavan, Ireland, survived by his wife.[1] Although Lady Lisgar married once more, she and Lord Lisgar are buried in Bailieborough Church of Ireland Graveyard, Bailieborough, County Cavan.
John Young married, on 8 April 1835, Adelaide Annabella Dalton, daughter of Edward Tuite Dalton ofFermor,County Meath, Ireland, and his wife, Olivia, daughter of Sir John Stevenson (who married, secondly,The 2nd Marquess of Headfort, K.P., P.C.). Dalton's date of birth is unknown; however, she was likely to have been born between 1811 and 1814. Her husband was raised to the peerage, as Baron Lisgar in 1870, and died on 6 October 1876. On 3 August 1878 Baroness Lisgar married her second husband, Sir Francis Charles Fortescue Turville of Bosworth Hall,Leicestershire. She married her third husband, Henry Trueman Mills, of Lubenham,Market Harborough. She died at Paris on 19 July 1895.[4]
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forCavan 1831–1855 With:Henry Maxwell to 1839 Somerset Maxwell 1839–40 Henry John Clements 1840–43 James Pierce Maxwell from 1843 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | Junior Lord of the Treasury 1841–1844 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1844–1845 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury 1845–1846 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Chief Secretary for Ireland 1853–1855 | Succeeded by |
| Government offices | ||
| Preceded by | Governor of New South Wales 1861–1867 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Governor General of Canada 1869–1872 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | Lord Lieutenant of Cavan 1871–1876 | Succeeded by |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| New creation | Baron Lisgar 1870–1876 | Extinct |
| Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by | Baronet (of Bailieborough) 1848–1876 | Succeeded by |
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