George Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan

George Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan

George Henry Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan KG PC (* 12. May 1840 , † 6. March 1915 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party .

He was briefly a member of the House of Commons in 1873 and inherited the title Earl Cadogan in 1873 , making him a member of the House of Lords for life . He held the office of Lord Seal Keeper from 1886 to 1892 and was later Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1895 to 1902 .

Life

Family background and education

He was the third of six children and the eldest son of Henry Cadogan, 4th Earl Cadogan , the number of years member of the Lower House, 1866-1868 Commander of the Royal bodyguard (Captain of the Queen's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard ) was and in 1864 when Earl Cadogan became a member of the House of Lords. As his father's apparently marriage , he carried the courtesy title Viscount Chelsea from 1864 . His mother, Sarah Mary Wellesley, was the daughter of clergyman Gerald Valerian Wellesley, who served temporarily as chaplain of the royal household. He graduated at the Christ Church College of Oxford University . After graduating, he served from 1865 to 1872 with the rank of major in the 3rd Militia Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) .

Member of the House of Commons, Member of the House of Lords and Undersecretary of State

In 1868 he applied for a seat in the House of Commons in the constituency of Bury , but was defeated by the constituency holder of the Liberal Party , Robert Needham Philips . On May 7, 1873, he was elected in a by -election as a candidate of the Conservative Party to a member of the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Bath for just under a month .

When his father died on June 8, 1873, he inherited his nobility titles as 5th Earl Caddogan , 5th Viscount Chelsea , 7th Baron Cadogan and 3rd Baron Oakley . With these titles a seat in the House of Lords was connected, for which he resigned from the House of Commons.

In 1875 Earl Cadogan took over his first office in the second government of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and was initially Undersecretary in the Ministry of War (Under-Secretary of War ) until 1878 . He then served in the government of Disraeli to 23 April 1880 as Undersecretary of State in the Colonial Office (Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies ) .

Keeper of the Lord Seal, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Mayor of Chelsea

Earl Cadogan, who became a member of the Privy Council on June 27, 1885 , was appointed by Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury as Lord Privy Seal in its second cabinet on August 3, 1886 , and held that office until the end of Salisbury's term of office on 15 August 1892. He was temporarily honorary colonel of the 3rd battalion of the Royal Fusiliers and the 2nd Middlesex Royal Volunteers and also received an honorary doctor of law (honorary doctor of law) of the University of Dublin . In 1891 he was accepted into the Order of the Garter as a Knight Companion .

As the successor to Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Earl of Crewe , he became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1895 and held this position as representative of Queen Queen Victoria and her successor King, Edward VII , until his replacement by William Humble Ward, 2nd. Earl of Dudley 1902.

Earl Cadogan, who was also Justice of the Peace for the counties of Suffolk , Norfolk , Cambridgeshire , London and Middlesex , was mayor of Chelsea in 1900 .

Marriages, offspring and inheritance

Cadogan was married twice. His first marriage was on May 16, 1865, Lady Beatrix Jane Craven, daughter of William Craven, 2nd Earl of Craven , and Lady Emily Mary Grimston, daughter of James Grimston, 1st Earl of Verulam . Nine children were born from this marriage.

The eldest son Albert Edward George Henry Cadogan, Viscount Chelsea, who was a godchild of Prince Consort Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , died in 1878 at the age of twelve. After his death, the second eldest son Henry Arthur Cadogan Heir became apparent and was also a member of the Lower House for the Conservative Party from 1892 to 1900. However, he also died in 1908 at the age of 40 before his father.

Thereupon the third eldest son Gerald Oakley Cadogan Heir became apparent and inherited the title of 6th Earl Cadogan on the death of his father in 1915 and thereby became a member of the House of Lords.

The fourth oldest child was the first daughter, Lady Emily Julia Cadogan. She was married to William Brownlow, 3rd Baron Lurgan . The fourth son Lewin Edward Cadogan died unmarried in 1917, while the second daughter was married to Samuel Scott, who was a member of the lower house for the Conservative Tories between 1918 and 1922 and when he entered parliament in 1898 at the age of 25, the youngest MP (Baby of the House ) .

The fifth son, William GS Cadogan, was a well-known cricketer and served as an officer in the Second Boer War before falling as a major in the 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) cavalry regiment on November 12, 1914 during World War I. The sixth son Edward Cecil George Cadogan was also active in politics and was a member of the House of Commons for the Conservative Party for 17 years. The seventh and youngest son was the diplomat Alexander George Montagu Cadogan , who was ambassador to the Republic of China from 1933 to 1936, the highest-ranking official of the Foreign Ministry between 1938 and 1946 as Permanent Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and the first permanent representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1946 to 1950 United Kingdom was at the United Nations , serving as Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors from 1952 to 1957 .

After the death of his first wife, Lady Beatrix Jane Craven on February 9, 1907, the 5th Earl Cadogan married Adele Neri, a daughter of Lippo Neri, Conte Palagi del Palagio, who through her mother, was a second marriage on January 12, 1911 in Florence his cousin Olivia Georgiana Cadogan, was related to him. This marriage remained childless.

He died on March 6, 1915 in London after an operation and was buried on March 10, 1915 in Culford . He left a sizable fortune of some £ 354,000 in his will, executed in April 1915 .

Web links

Commons : George Henry Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Viscount Chelsea at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• George Henry Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan on thepeerage.com , accessed August 12, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
Henry Cadogan	Earl Cadogan 1873-1915	Gerald Cadogan
William Ewart Gladstone	Lord Seal Keeper 1886-1892	William Ewart Gladstone
Robert Crewe-Milnes	Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1895-1902	William Humble Ward