William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly
William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly PC ( * September 21, 1812, † April 20, 1894 ) was an Anglo -Irish landowner and Liberal politician. He has held a number of ministerial positions 1852-1873, in particular Chairman of the Health Committee in 1857 and as Postmaster General 1871-1873.
Life
Background and education
The son of William Monsells (1778-1822), of Tervoe, Clarina, County Limerick and Olivia, daughter of Sir John Johnson - Walsh, 1st Baronet, of Ballykilcavan, attended Winchester College ( 1826-1830 ) and the Oriel College, Oxford. But he left in 1831, the university without a degree. When his father died in 1822, he inherited the family estate as an adolescent and was a popular landowners, especially since he has been resident on the family estate.
Political career
Monsell served as sheriff of the county Limerick in 1835. In 1847 he was elected Member of Parliament for the constituency of County Limerick, which he represented until 1874. In 1850 he converted to the Roman Catholic Church and subsequently held a prominent role in Catholic affairs, especially in Parliament. Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman as a friend, John Henry Newman, Montalamberts, William George Ward and other important Catholics he was intimately familiar with the various interests of the Church and his parliamentary position was often of great benefit to the church.
George Hamilton - Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen appointed Monsell 1852 Clerk of the Ordnance, a post which he retained until 1857, the last two years under the Prime Minister Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston. In 1855 he was sworn in as Privy Council. He was briefly president of the Health Committee under Palmerston in 1857 and later he served under John Russell, 1st Earl Russell as Paymaster -General and Vice- President of the Board of Trade in 1866, and under William Ewart Gladstone as Under Secretary of State for the Colonies 1868-1871 and as Postmaster General between January 1871 and November 1873. He was also Lord Lieutenant of County Limerick 1871-1894 and Vice- Chancellor of the Royal University of Ireland 1885-1894.
Victoria raised him on 12 January 1874 in the peerage as Baron Emly, the Tervoe in County Limerick. He lost much of his popularity in Ireland during his later years, because of his opposition to the Irish Land League and the Home Rule movement in Ireland. His work is mainly parliament. He wrote little, but published some articles in the Home and Foreign Review and a Lecture on the Roman Question ( lecture on the Roman Question ) ( 1860).
Family
He was married twice. He married in August 1836 First Lady Anna Maria Charlotte Wyndham- Quin ( 1814-1855 ), only daughter of Windham Wyndham- Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount - Earl, with whom he had two sons, both of whom died as an infant. After her death on January 7, 1855, he married in 1857 Bertha ( 1835-1890 ), the youngest daughter of the Comte de Montigny Montigny de Perreux of the house, with whom he had a son Gaston ( 1858-1932 ), later the second Baron Emly, and a daughter, Mary Olivia (1860-1942) had.