Robert William Hanbury

"A Financial Secretary": Robert William Hanbury
(caricature by Leslie Ward (Spy) in Vanity Fair , May 28, 1896)

Robert William Hanbury , PC , DL ( February 24, 1845 - April 28, 1903 ) was a British Conservative Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons between 1872 and 1880 and again from 1885 to 1903 and between 1900 and 1903 held the post of Minister of Agriculture.

Life

Hanbury was a candidate of the Conservative Party on 16 April 1872 for the first time as a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) selected and represented in this first until 23 April 1878 constituency Tamworth and then between 24 April 1878 to 31 March 1880 the constituency of Staffordshire Northern . August 1, 1872 he became the Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of the County of Staffordshire . On November 24, 1885, he was finally re-elected for the conservative Tories in Preston constituency as a member of the House of Commons, to which he now belonged until his death on April 28, 1903.

On June 29, 1895, Hanbury took over his first government office and served until November 16, 1900 as Financial Secretary to the Treasury . On July 2, 1895 he became a member of the Privy Council (PC). As part of a cabinet reshuffle he then took over on 16 November 1900 as the successor to Walter Long , the Office of the Minister of Agriculture (President of the Board of Agriculture) in the Cabinet Salisbury III and exercised this minister of 12 July 1902 to his death on April 28, 1903 also in the subsequent Balfour cabinet .

Web links

• Robert William Hanbury at Hansard (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 23890, HMSO, London, August 27, 1872, p. 3810 ( PDF , accessed March 15, 2017, English).
2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 26639, HMSO, London, July 2, 1895, p. 3719 ( PDF , accessed March 15, 2017, English).
3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 27248, HMSO, London, November 20, 1900, p. 7136 ( PDF , accessed March 15, 2017, English).