Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley PC (born April 29, 1766 in London , † February 8, 1851 in Kent ) was a German-born British politician and statesman.
Life
Nicholas Vansittart, son of a family from Danzig who moved to Great Britain , trained at Christ Church College in Oxford , became a barrister in 1791 , but dealt primarily with political and financial issues and published several papers on it. As a decided Tory , the government had him elected to Parliament for Hastings in 1796 and sent him to Copenhagen in early 1801 to withdraw the Danish court from the Nordic alliance, which he did not succeed.
In 1804 he became State Secretary in the Treasury , in 1805 Chief Secretary for Ireland , then went back to the Treasury and as such brought about the suspension of cash payments by the Bank of England in 1810 until after the peace was concluded. After Spencer Perceval's death, he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in the government of the Earl of Liverpool in 1812 . He first had to secure the financing of the last years of the war, then the conversion to the peace economy combined with tax cuts that parliament had forced. Vansittart held that office for more than ten years with such success that he left his successor a £ 7 million surplus in the public finances.
On March 1, 1823, he was given the title of Baron Bexley , of Bexley in Kent , raised to a peer and named Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster . Retired from civil service in 1828 with a pension of 3,000 pounds sterling, from then on he devoted his activities mainly to the administration of charitable and religious institutes.
Vansittart died on February 8, 1851 at his country estate, Foots Cray, Kent. His title of nobility expired because he and his wife Isabella, a daughter of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland , had no male descendants.
literature
- Bexley, Nicholas Vansittart . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 3 : Austria - Bisectrix . London 1910, p. 837 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
- Nicholas Vansittart at Hansard (English)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Evan Nepean |
Chief Secretary for Ireland 1805 |
Charles Long |
| Spencer Perceval |
Chancellor of the Exchequer 1812–1823 |
Frederick John Robinson |
| Charles Bathurst |
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1823-1828 |
George Hamilton-Gordon |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vansittart, Nicholas, 1st Baron Bexley |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bexley, Nicholas Vansittart 1st Baron |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician, member of the House of Commons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1766 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1851 |
| Place of death | Kent |