Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford

Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford

Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue, 2nd Baron Clermont, 1st Baron Carlingford KP PC (birth name: Chichester Samuel Fortescue ; born January 18, 1823 in Glyde , County Louth , Ireland , † January 30, 1898 in Marseille , France ) was a British Politician of the Whigs and later of the Liberal Party , who represented the constituency of Louth as a member of the House of Commons for 27 years , was twice Chief Secretary for Ireland and between 1871 and 1874 was Minister of Trade (President of the Board of Trade ) . He also served from 1873 to 1892 as Lord Lieutenant of the County of Essex . In 1874 he was raised as Baron Carlingford to the hereditary nobility (Hereditary Peerage) and was a member of the House of Lords until his death . He also held the office of Lord Seal Keeper from 1881 to 1885 and was also Lord President of the Council between 1883 and 1885 .

Life

Family background and studies

Fortescue was the fourth of five children and the second son of Lieutenant Colonel Chichester Fortescue , who was a member of the Irish House of Commons for a few months in 1800, and his wife, the lawyer’s daughter Martha Angel Hobson.

His older brother Thomas Fortescue was briefly 1840-1841 Member of the House of Commons and was in 1852, first in the Peerage of Ireland to Baron Clermont , of Dromisken in the County of Louth, collected before 1866 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom for Baron Clermont , of Clermont Park in the County of Louth, and thereby became a member of the House of Lords. His youngest sister, Harriet Angelina Fortescue, was the wife of David Urquhart of Braelangwell , who was a member of the House of Commons between 1852 and 1857.

He himself began on May 26, 1841 to study at Christ Church , which he finished in 1845 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He completed a postgraduate course there in 1847 with a Master of Arts (MA).

Member of the House of Commons and Junior Minister

Immediately after graduation, Fortescue was elected as a candidate for the Whigs on July 29, 1847 for the first time a member of the House of Commons and represented in this until January 31, 1874 for almost 27 years the constituency of Louth .

During this time he took on his first government office in the government of Prime Minister George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen , from 1854 to 1855 , as one of the Lord of the Treasury , a subordinate role in the Treasury in support of the Chancellor of the Exchequer . In the subsequent first government of Prime Minister Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston , he succeeded John Ball in June 1857 as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies . He held this office until the end of Palmerston's tenure on February 20, 1858.

After Viscount Palmerston became Prime Minister again on June 12, 1859, Fortescue again took over the office of Undersecretary of State in the Colonial Ministry and held this until December 7, 1865. During this time he legally changed his name to Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue.

Chief Secretary for Ireland, Secretary of Commerce and Lord Lieutenant of Essex

Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue in a cartoon in Vanity Fair magazine August 14, 1869

Palmerston's successor as Prime Minister John Russell, 1st Earl Russell then appointed Parkinson-Fortescue on December 7, 1865 as the successor to Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet, for the first time Chief Secretary for Ireland . As such, he took over the key position within the British administration of Ireland after the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and remained in this post until the end of the tenure of Earl Russell on June 26, 1866. On January 13, 1866 he also became a member of the Privy Council of Ireland.

After Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone took office on December 3, 1868, he reappointed Parkinson-Fortescue as Chief Secretary for Ireland on December 16, 1868 and held this position until he was replaced by Spencer Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington on January 12, 1871.

He himself was then appointed by Prime Minister Gladstone on January 14, 1871 to succeed John Bright as President of the Board of Trade in his first cabinet and was a member of this until the end of Gladstone's term on February 17, 1874.

In addition to his ministerial office, Parkinson-Fortescue took over the function of Lord Lieutenant of Essex on September 4, 1873 from Sir Thomas Western, 1st Baronet . He held this office as representative of Queen Victoria until his replacement by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh on February 2, 1892.

Member of the House of Lords, Lord Seal Keeper and Lord President of the Council

By a letters patent dated February 28, 1874, Parkinson-Fortescue was raised to hereditary nobility (Hereditary Peerage) as Baron Carlingford , of Carlingford in the County of Louth, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and was thus a member of the until his death House of Lords.

On May 2, 1881 appointed Prime Minister Gladstone him as successor to George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll to the Lord Privy Seal (Lord Privy Seal) in its second government. He held this ministerial office until February 1885 and was then replaced by Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery . On April 11, 1882, he was made Knight of the Order of St. Patrick .

In addition to his function as Lord Keeper of the Seal, Baron Carlingford took over from John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer , on March 19, 1883 , the office of Lord President of the Council in Gladstone's government and held this until June 24, 1885.

After his brother Thomas Fortescue died childless on July 29, 1887, he inherited from him the title belonging to the Peerage of Ireland as 2nd Baron Clermont , of Dromisken in the County of Louth, during which the title of Baron belonging to the Peerage of the United Kingdom Clermont, of Clermont Park in the County of Louth, became extinct.

marriage

Chichester-Parkinson was married to Frances Elizabeth Anne Braham, daughter of the famous tenor John Braham , since January 20, 1863 . He died on January 30, 1898 in Marseilles as a result of influenza and was buried in Chewton Mendip on February 5, 1898 after his transfer. Since he also died childless, his titles of nobility became extinct.

Web links

• Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st and last Baron Carlingford on thepeerage.com , accessed August 16, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
Title created	Baron Carlingford 1874-1898	Title expired
Thomas Fortescue	Baron Clermont 1887–1898	Title expired