Henry Labouchère, 1st Baron Taunton

Henry Labouchère, 1st Baron Taunton

Henry Labouchère, 1st Baron Taunton PC (born August 15, 1798 in Quantock Lodge, Over Stowey , Somerset , † July 13, 1869 ibid) was a British statesman.

Henry Labouchère was the son of a French royalist and was educated in Winchester and Oxford . After the death of his father he made several long journeys and in 1826 he became a member of the House of Commons, first for the constituency of Mitchell and then two years later for Taunton . From 1832 to November 1834 he was Lord of the Admiralty, 1835 Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Mintmaster of the Royal Mint , 1839 Undersecretary of State for the Colonies and until September 1841 President of the Department of Commerce.

After the Whigs returned to government, he was Chief Secretary for Ireland from July 1846 to July 1847 . Thereupon he again took over the chairmanship of the Board of Trade and headed, after a further period of his party in the opposition, in the first cabinet Palmerston from November 1855 to 1858 the office of the Secretary of State for the Colonies . Labouchère always belonged to the Whigs, supported by name the repeal of the Corn Laws and in 1859 was raised to Baron Taunton , of Taunton in the County of Somerset, and thus moved to the House of Lords .

He died in 1869 without a male heir, after which the barony became extinct. Henry du Pré Labouchère was his nephew and inherited part of his fortune.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The London Gazette : No. 22298, p. 3108 , August 16, 1859.

Web links

• Mr Henry Labouchere at Hansard (English)
• Labouchere, Henry, Baron Taunton . In: Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby: The New International Encyclopædia. Volume 11, New York 1905.
• Taunton, Henry Labouchere, Baron . In: Hugh Chisholm : Encyclopædia Britannica , Volume 26, Cambridge University Press , 1911.

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