Charles Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley

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Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley. Caricature by Leslie Ward , 1886

Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley PC (born September 15, 1851 in Escrick Hall , † April 25, 1926 ) was a British nobleman, lawyer and politician.

Life

Charles Stuart-Wortley came from an old branch of the Stuarts , which descended from the Scottish King Robert II . He was the second son of James Stuart-Wortley and his wife Jane Lawley . He attended rugby school and then studied at Balliol College , Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1875 . In 1876 he was admitted to the Inner Temple as a barrister . In 1878 he graduated with a Master of Arts . In the British House of Commons elections in 1880, he was elected to the Tories for Sheffield , becoming the first Tory to win that constituency after the 1832 constituency reform. In the next election of 1885 his constituency was split up, in these elections he was elected as a Member of Parliament for the constituency of Sheffield-Hallam, which he represented in the House of Commons until 1916 . From June 1885 to January 1886 and from 1886 to 1892 he was Under Secretary of State in the Home Office . In 1892 he became Queen's Counsel and in 1896 a member of the Privy Council . In 1895 Edward Benson , Archbishop of Canterbury, appointed him Ecclesiastical Commissioner and Church Estates Commissioner of the Church of England . From 1906 he was director and vice chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London .

After resigning on December 16, 1916, he was raised to hereditary Baron Stuart of Wortley , of the City of Sheffield, on January 1, 1917 , and thus a member of the House of Lords .

Family and offspring

Stuart-Wortley was married twice: in 1880 he married Beatrice (Bice) Trollope (1853-1881), a daughter of the writer Thomas Adolphus Trollope and his wife Theodosia Trollope . She died shortly after the birth of her daughter Beatrice Susan Theodosia Stuart-Wortley (1881–1973). In 1886 Stuart-Wortley married Alice Sophia Caroline Millais (1862-1936), a daughter of John Everett Millais and Effie Gray, for the second time . With her he had a second daughter, Clare Euphemia Stuart-Wortley (1889-1945). Since he did not leave any male descendants, his title of nobility expired upon his death.

Others

Stuart-Wortley was considered a good piano player and he shared his love for music with his second wife Alice. He and his wife were close friends with the composer Edward Elgar and his wife Alice. Stuart-Wortley's wife is said to have served as Elgar's muse and inspired him to several compositions.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Barnes, Historian: Charles Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley (1851-1926). Retrieved September 23, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Stuart-Wortley, Charles, Baron Stuart of Wortley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stuart-Wortley, Charles Beilby, Baron Stuart of Wortley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nobleman, lawyer and politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Escrick Hall
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1926