John Stuart-Wortley, 2nd Baron Wharncliffe
John Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 2nd Baron Wharncliffe FRS (born April 23, 1801 in Egham , † October 22, 1855 in Wortley Hall near Sheffield ) was a British nobleman and politician.
Origin and youth
John Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie came from an old branch line of the Stuarts , which descended from the Scottish King Robert II . He was born as John Stuart-Wortley as the eldest son of James Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Wharncliffe and his wife Elizabeth Crichton, a daughter of John Crichton, 2nd Earl Erne and his wife Mary Caroline Hervey . He spent much of his childhood in Yorkshire with his grandmother, Mary Crichton. From 1812 to 1817 he attended Harrow School and from 1818 Christ Church College in Oxford, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1822 . In the late summer of 1814 he and his parents made a trip to Paris and Spa and from October 1817 to June 1818 with his European trip to Rome, Naples, Venice and Innsbruck. From February to June 1823 he went on a trip to Europe to Italy and Switzerland with his friend Henry Edward Fox .
Life
While he was still on tour in Europe, he was elected to the House of Commons in absentia as a member of the Tories for the rotten borough Bossiney . After attending the plenary sessions that winter, he made an extensive trip to Canada and the United States from the summer of 1824 to June 1825 with John Evelyn Denison , Edward Smith Stanley and Henry de Labouchère , during which they visited New York, Quebec, Visited Boston, Washington, Baltimore and Halifax and met La Fayette and ex-President John Adams . From 1826 he was noticed by his speeches in the House of Commons. He supported William Huskisson and was Secretary of the Board of Control for India from February 16 to December 1830 . In 1830, his brother Charles ran for Bossiney in his place, while he ran for the Scottish constituency of Perth Burgs . When his election result in Perth Burgs was invalidated, his brother resigned from his mandate and in the spring of 1831 John was re-elected for Bossiney. He supported his father, who was a leading proponent of constituency reform , in introducing the Reform Act of 1832. The constituency reform dissolved his constituency in Bossiney. In 1835 he ran unsuccessfully for Forfarshire , and twice he lost the election for the West Riding of Yorkshire mandate before winning that constituency in 1841. He resigned this mandate in 1845 after he inherited the title of Baron Wharncliffe after the death of his father and thus became a member of the House of Lords . After the death of his father, he changed his name to Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie.
From 1822 he was Major and from 1841 Lieutenant Colonel of the Southwest Yorkshire Yeomanry , from 1846 he was Colonel of the 1st West Yorkshire Milita . He wrote numerous political and economic articles and papers and translated François Guizot's memoirs of the Duke of Albemarle into English. Since 1829 he was a Fellow of the Royal Society . Seriously ill, he spent the winter of 1854 to 1855 in Egypt and eventually died of tuberculosis .
Family and offspring
He married Georgina Elizabeth Ryder, daughter of Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby , on December 12, 1825 . He had five children:
- Edward Montagu Granville Stuart-Wortley, 3rd Baron Wharncliffe
- Francis Dudley Stuart-Wortley, later Montagu-Stuart-Wortley (1829-1893)
- James Frederick Stuart-Wortley (1833-1870)
- Mary Caroline Stuart-Wortley (1826–1896) ∞ Henry Francis Seymour Moore, 3rd Marquess of Drogheda
- Cecily Susan Stuart-Wortley (1835–1915) ∞ Henry Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Beaulieu
His heir became his eldest son Edward.
Works
- A brief inquiry into the true award of an "equitable adjustment" between the nation and its creditors , London 1833
- Considerations on the currency and banking system of the United States , London 1832
- François Guizot: Memoirs of George Monk, Duke of Albemarle . Bentley, London 1838 (translation)
Web links
- G. Le G. Norgate; HCG Matthew: Wortley, James Archibald Stuart-, first Baron Wharncliffe (1776-1845). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
- History of Parliament online: David R. Fischer, STUART WORTLEY, John (1801-1855), of 15 Curzon Street, Mdx.
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| SURNAME | Stuart-Wortley, John, 2nd Baron Wharncliffe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, John, 2nd Baron Wharncliffe (full name); Stuart, John; Stuart-Wortley, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British nobleman and politician, member of the House of Commons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1801 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Egham |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1855 |
| Place of death | Wortley Hall near Sheffield |