Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh

Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh GCB, PC ( born October 27, 1818 in London, † January 12, 1887 ) was a British nobleman, a conservative politician and statesman.

Life

Stafford Northcote was born in a resident in Devon for centuries family He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College at the University of Oxford. In 1842 he was private secretary to William Ewart Gladstone, and then became one of the secretaries of the Great Exhibition. In 1851 he succeeded his grandfather as 8th Baronet.

Northcote was first elected in 1855 as a Conservative in the House of Commons. In 1866 he became President of the Board of Trade, a year later Minister of India. Since 1874, Chancellor of the Exchequer, he is responsible for the introduction of the Friendly Societies Bill 1875.

Since 1876 he was also Speaker of the House of Commons and Leader of the Conservatives in the House of Commons. After the death of Disraeli he shared with Robert Gascoyne - Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, the chair of the Conservative Party.

In 1885 he was raised to the Earl of Iddesleigh. In the cabinet, he moved at the same time in the office of the First Lord of the Treasury. In the second cabinet of Salisbury, he was Foreign Minister of the United Kingdom in 1886, but waived beginning January 1887 for health reasons to the Office. He died a few days later.

Northcote had been married since 1843. He had ten children. The earldom passed to his eldest son at his death.