John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley

John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley, in the House of Lords

John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley (born January 7, 1826 in Wymondham , Norfolk , † April 8, 1902 in London ) was a British aristocrat and liberal politician.

Life

Wodehouse first attended Eton College and studied at Christ Church College at the University of Oxford . In 1846 he succeeded his grandfather as Baron Wodehouse .

In 1852 Wodehouse entered the Aberdeen government as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office , he held this post under Palmerston until 1856, when he went to St. Petersburg as British Ambassador .

Recalled in 1858, he returned to his old post in Palmerston's second cabinet and held it until 1861. In 1863 he worked as a special envoy on the Schleswig-Holstein question without being able to reach a solution.

In Lord Russell's second ministry, he was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from October 1864 to July 1866 , after having been Undersecretary of State in the India Office for a short time . After his resignation from this office he was raised to the Earl of Kimberley .

In Gladstone's government from December 1868 to July 1870, Wodehouse was Lord Keeper of the Seal , then Secretary of State for the Colonies until February 1874 , which he took up again in Gladstone's second cabinet in April 1880, but in 1882 after a brief intermezzo as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster exchanged with the Secretary of State for India . This ministerial office held Wodehouse during all subsequent reigns of Gladstone (1882-1885, 1886, 1892-1894). During the latter period he was both Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords .

Eventually he became Foreign Minister in Lord Rosebery's government in 1894/95 . Wodehouse was always considered a loyal partisan of Gladstone, but without setting any special accents personally.

He died in London in 1902. His titles passed to his eldest son.

literature

• Kimberley, John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 15 : Italy - Kyshtym . London 1911, p. 798 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

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predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Earl of Kimberley 1866-1902	John Wodehouse
John Wodehouse	Baron Wodehouse 1846-1902	John Wodehouse
George Howard	Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1864–1866	James Hamilton
James Howard Harris	Lord seal keeper 1868–1870	Charles Wood
John Bright	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1882	John George Dodson
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy	Lord President of the Council 1892-1894	Archibald Primrose