Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne

Henry Petty - Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne KG PC FRS ( born July 2, 1780 in Lansdowne House, London, † January 31, 1863 in Bowood House, Wiltshire, England ) was a British statesman.

Biography

Petty - Fitzmaurice was the second of three children of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (2 May 1737 - May 7, 1805 ) and his second marriage wife Lady Louisa FitzPatrick (1755 - August 7, 1789 ), a daughter of John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory. He studied at the University of Cambridge and graduated in 1801 from. 1802 for the first time was a deputy to the lower house (House of Commons ) is selected and represented the constituency there Calne.

In 1805 he was one of the leading critics of the First Lord of the Admiralty Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, who had been suspected to have misappropriated funds during his tenure as treasurer of the Royal Navy. After the death of William Pitt, he followed this in 1806 as a Member of Parliament for the University of Cambridge.

In February 1806 he was appointed in the cabinet of Prime Minister William Wyndham Grenville Chancellor of the Exchequer, and held this office until March, 1807.

After the death of his half-brother John Petty, 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne he was in 1809 as the successor 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne and thus a member of the Upper House (House of Lords).

He was regarded as a liberal and was in the July 1827 Minister of the Interior in the cabinet of George Canning. After that, he was from 1829 to 1831 Rector of the University of Glasgow.

Between November 1830 and 1834, he was Lord President of the Council in the Cabinets of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey and William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne and in this function responsible for the adoption of the electoral reform of 1832.

After a short break it was in April 1835 again Lord President of the Council in the Cabinet of Prime Minister and held that office until August 1841. For his services he was in 1836 appointed Knight of the Garter.

In June 1846 he was Prime Minister John Russell, 1st Earl Russell again unto the Lord President of the Council appointed and took this time to February 1852 at the same time the office of the leader of the Upper House ( Leader of the House of Lords).

Both in February 1852 and in February 1855 he refused to form a government and thus forgoing the Office of the Prime Minister.

The Marquess of Lansdowne was interested in art and literature in addition to, and let the memory of his ancestors in 1845 built the Lansdowne Monument, near the Cherhill White Horse.

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  • CHAMBERS BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA, 2002, ISBN 0550100512, p 890
  • Marquess of Lansdowne
  • Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • Minister (United Kingdom)
  • Interior Minister (United Kingdom)
  • Politicians (19th Century )
  • Member of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)
  • Member of the House of Lords
  • Knight of the Order of the Garter
  • Briton
  • Born in 1780
  • Died in 1863
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