William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly

The painstaking Irishman ( Careful Ire ) Carlo Pellegrini in Vanity Fair on February 11, 1871

William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly PC ( September 21, 1812 - April 20, 1894 ) was an Anglo-Irish landowner and liberal politician . He held a number of ministerial posts between 1852 and 1873, notably President of the Health Committee in 1857 and as Minister of Post between 1871 and 1873.

Life

Origin and education

The son of William Monsell (1778-1822), of Tervoe, Clarina , County Limerick and Olivias, daughter of Sir John Johnson-Walsh, 1st Baronet, of Ballykilcavan, attended Winchester College (1826-1830) and Oriel College , Oxford . But he left university in 1831 without a degree. When his father died in 1822, he inherited the family property as a boy and was a popular landowner, especially since he was a resident of the family property.

Political career

Monsell served as Limerick County Sheriff in 1835. In 1847 he was elected Member of Parliament for the Limerick constituency , which he represented until 1874. In 1850 he converted to the Roman Catholic Church and thereafter played a prominent role in Catholic affairs, particularly in Parliament. A friend of Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wisemans , John Henry Newmans , Montalamberts, William George Wards, and other eminent Catholics, he was intimately familiar with the various interests of the Church and his parliamentary position was often of great benefit to the Church.

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen , appointed Monsell Clerk of Ordnance in 1852 , an office he held until 1857, the last two years under Prime Minister Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston . In 1855 he was sworn in as Privy Councilor. He served briefly as President of the Health Committee under Palmerston in 1857 and later served under John Russell, 1st Earl Russell as Paymaster General and Vice President of the Board of Trade in 1866, and under William Ewart Gladstone as Undersecretary for the Colonies between 1868 and 1871 and as Minister of Post between January 1871 and November 1873. He was also Lord Lieutenant of Limerick between 1871 and 1894 and Vice Chancellor of the Royal University of Ireland between 1885 and 1894.

Victoria elevated him to the nobility on January 12, 1874 as Baron Emly, the Tervoe in County Limerick. He lost much of his popularity in Ireland during his later years because of his opposition to the Irish Land League and the Home Rule movement in Ireland. His work is primarily parliamentary. He wrote little, but some articles published in the Home and Foreign Review and a lecture on the Roman Question (lecture on the Roman Question ) (1860).

family

He was married twice. In August 1836 he married Lady Anna Maria Charlotte Wyndham-Quin (1814-1855), only daughter of Windham Wyndham-Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl , with whom he had two sons who both died in infancy . After her death on January 7, 1855, he married Bertha (1835-1890), the youngest daughter of the Comte de Montigny of the House of Montigny de Perreux, in 1857, with whom he had a son Gaston (1858-1932), later the second Baron Emly , and had a daughter, Mary Olivia (1860–1942).

Web links

• Entry in the Catholic Encyclopedia (English)
• William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.