Hugh Childers

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Hugh Childers

Hugh Culling Eardley Childers PC (born June 25, 1827 in London , † January 29, 1896 ibid) was a British politician .

Life

Childers was born in 1827 in London to Eardley Childers and his wife Maria Charlotte . He attended the Cheam School . In 1845 he moved to the Wadham College of Oxford University and in 1847 at the Trinity College of Cambridge University . Childers earned a bachelor's degree in 1850 . On May 28 of the same year, he married Emily Walker . Together they fathered six children, four sons and two daughters. The couple arrived in colonial Australia on October 26th . Childers fitted himself into high society and was appointed inspector for denominational schools in 1851; the following year for state schools. In 1852 he suggested the establishment of a second university in Victoria, from which the University of Melbourne emerged , whose first Vice-Chancellor Childers was. The following year he served as director of the Melbourne, Mount Alexander and Murray River Railway Company . In 1857 he received his master’s degree and returned to England in July of the following year. In the same year Childers was inducted into the Royal Geographical Society and in 1873 into the Royal Society . Childers was a member of Lincoln's Inn since 1859 and was promoted to Privy Council in 1868 . He died in 1896.

Political career

After the establishment of the Victoria Colony , Childers was appointed Auditor General there and was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council . Childers helped draft the first Victorian constitution in 1853. With the introduction of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1856, Childers was elected to represent the Portland constituency in the newly created Parliament. He was used as a commissioner for trade and customs.

Upon his return, Childers won the Lower House mandate of the Pontefract constituency for the Liberal Party in 1860 . From 1864 to 1866 he was appointed Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and held the position of Secretary of State for Finance in 1865 and 1866. As the successor to Henry Thomas Lowry-Corry , Childers was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty in 1868 and held this post until 1871. In this role he supported the construction of the HMS Captain , which, with his son on board, was on its first voyage in the September 1870 sank.

In 1872 and 1873 Childers was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster . Between 1880 and 1882 Childers was appointed Minister of War and then took the position of Chancellor of the Exchequer , which he filled until 1885. In the run-up to the general election in 1885 , the constituency structure was revised. Childer's constituency of Pontefract, whose mandate he had defended in all elections since 1860, was to send only one member in the future. On election day Childers was defeated by the conservative opponent Rowland Winn with a difference of only 36 votes and was subsequently eliminated from the British House of Commons.

After the death of the Liberal House of Commons George Harrison in December 1885, by-elections were held in his constituency of Edinburgh South on January 29, 1886. To these Childers went against the conservative Walter George Hepburne-Scott . He clearly won the mandate and took the position of Home Secretary in Parliament . In the following general election in 1886 Childers defended his mandate. He did not run for the general election in 1892 . His party colleague Herbert Woodfield Paul held the mandate from Edinburgh South.

Biographies

  • Edmund Spencer Eardley Childers: The life and correspondence of the Right Hon. Hugh CE Childers, 1827-1896. J. Murray, London 1901.
  • Edward Sweetman: The educational activities in Victoria of the Rt. Hon. HCE Childers. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1940.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Childers, Hugh Culling Eardley . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 2 : Chalmers – Fytche . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1944, pp. 29 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ a b Childers, Hugh Culling Eardley (1827-1896). In: HL Hall: Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Center of Biography, Australian National University ( adb.anu.edu.au ).
  3. ^ Debrett's Guide to the House of Commons. 1870, p. 348 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Hugh Childers in Hansard (English)
  5. ^ Debrett's Guide to the House of Commons. 1886, p. 220 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  6. ^ Liberal Year Book. 1892.
  7. ^ Mansons ′ Shetland Almanac and Directory for 1893. T & Manson, Lerwick, 1893, p. 18.
predecessor Office successor
Henry Thomas Lowry-Corry First Lord of the Admiralty
1868–1871 		George Goschen
personal data
SURNAME Childers, Hugh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Childers, Hugh Culling Eardley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1896
Place of death London