James Stansfield

James Stansfield

James Stansfield (born October 5, 1820 in Halifax , England, † February 17, 1898 in Rotherfield , Sussex) was a British politician .

James Stansfield studied at University College London and became a barrister in 1849 . In 1859 he entered the House of Commons for his hometown , where he joined the left wing of the Liberal Party . In 1863 he was appointed Civil Lord of the Admiralty , but already resigned from the government in 1864, where his close relationship with Giuseppe Mazzini caused offense. Nonetheless, given the influence he had in the House of Commons, the following liberal governments could not avoid taking him back into their midst.

Stansfield was Undersecretary of State under Prime Minister John Russell from February to June 1866 and Lord of the Admiralty under William Ewart Gladstone from December 1868 to October 1869 and Secretary of the Treasury under the same until March 1871.

Thereupon he received the presidium of the Poor Office and in August of the same year the presidium of the newly established Local Government Board . In 1874 he resigned with Gladstone.

When the Liberal government was reformed in the spring of 1880, Stansfield was passed over.