Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford

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The Lord Carlingford

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Lord President of the Council
In office
19 March 1883 – 24 June 1885
MonarchVictoria
Prime MinisterWilliam Ewart Gladstone
Preceded byThe Earl Spencer
Succeeded byThe Viscount Cranbrook
President of the Board of Trade
In office
14 January 1871 – 17 February 1874
MonarchVictoria
Prime MinisterWilliam Ewart Gladstone
Preceded byJohn Bright
Succeeded bySir Charles Adderley
Personal details
Born(1823-01-18)18 January 1823
Glyde, County Louth
Died30 January 1898(1898-01-30) (aged 75)
Marseille, France
NationalityBritish
Political partyLiberal later Liberal Unionist
Spouse(s)Frances Braham
(1863-1879)
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford

Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue, 2nd Baron Clermont and 1st Baron Carlingford KP PC (18 January 1823 – 30 January 1898), known as Chichester Fortescue until 1863 and as Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue between 1863 and 1874 and Lord Carlingford after 1874, was a British Liberal politician of the 19th century.

Background and education[]

Born Chichester Fortescue, Carlingford was the son of Chichester Fortescue (died 1826), Member of Parliament for Hillsborough in the Irish parliament. He came of an old Anglo-Irish family settled in Ireland since the days of Sir Faithful Fortescue (1581–1666), whose uncle, The 1st Baron Chichester, was Lord Deputy. The history of the family was written by his elder brother, Thomas Fortescue, who in 1852 was created Baron Clermont. His mother was Martha Angel, daughter of Samuel Meade Hobson. Carlingford was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took a first in Classics (1844) and won the chancellor's English essay (1846).[1] In 1863, he assumed by Royal Licence the additional surname of Parkinson as heir to his aunt's husband William Parkinson Ruxton.

Political career[]

In 1847, Carlingford was elected to parliament for Louth as a Liberal. He became a junior Lord of the Treasury in 1854 under Lord Palmerston, a post he held until 1855, and was later Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies under Palmerston between 1857 and 1858 and 1859 and 1865. He was admitted to the Privy Council in 1864 and the following year he was made Chief Secretary for Ireland under Lord Russell, a post which he again occupied under William Ewart Gladstone from 1868 to 1871 (this time with a seat in the cabinet). In 1866, he was also admitted to the Irish Privy Council. He was then President of the Board of Trade between 1871 and 1874. The latter year he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Carlingford, of Carlingford in the County of Louth.[1]

Carlingford later served under Gladstone as Lord Privy Seal between 1881 and 1885 and as Lord President of the Council between 1883 and 1885. In 1882, he was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick. He parted from Gladstone on the question of Irish Home Rule, but in earlier years he was his active supporter on Irish questions.

Personal life[]

Lord Carlingford caricatured by Ape in Vanity Fair, 1869

Lord Carlingford married Frances Elizabeth Anne, Countess Waldegrave, daughter of John Braham, in 1863. She had been married three times before, the second time to The 7th Earl Waldegrave. There were no children from the marriage. Carlingford's influence in society was due largely to her. She died in July 1879, aged 58.[1]

In 1887, Carlingford's brother, Lord Clermont, died, and Carlingford inherited his peerage according to a special remainder, after which he was known as Lord Carlingford and Clermont.[2]

He died at Marseille, France, in January 1898, aged 75. Both his titles became extinct on his death for lack of heirs as his marriage had produced no children.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Chisholm 1911.
  2. ^ Historical Register of the University of Oxford: With an Alphabetical Record of University Honours and Distinctions Conferred to the End of Trinity Term, 1888 (Clarendon Press, 1888), p. 142
Attribution
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Carlingford, Chichester Samuel Fortescue". Encyclopædia Britannica. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Thomas Vesey Dawson and
Richard Bellew
Member of Parliament for County Louth
18471874
With: Richard Bellew to 1852
Tristram Kennedy 1852–1857
John McClintock 1857–1859
Richard Montesquieu Bellew 1859–1865
Tristram Kennedy 1865–1868
Matthew O'Reilly Dease 1868–1874
Succeeded by
Alexander Martin Sullivan and
Philip Callan
Political offices
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John Ball
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
1857 – 1858
Succeeded by
The Earl of Carnarvon
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The Earl of Carnarvon
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
1859 – 1865
Succeeded by
William Edward Forster
Preceded by
Sir Robert Peel, Bt
Chief Secretary for Ireland
1865 – 1866
Succeeded by
Lord Naas
Preceded by
John Wilson-Patten
Chief Secretary for Ireland
1868 – 1871
Succeeded by
Marquess of Hartington
Preceded by
John Bright
President of the Board of Trade
1871 – 1874
Succeeded by
Sir Charles Adderley
Preceded by
The Duke of Argyll
Lord Privy Seal
1881 – 1885
Succeeded by
The Earl of Rosebery
Preceded by
The Earl Spencer
Lord President of the Council
1883 – 1885
Succeeded by
The Viscount Cranbrook
Honorary titles
Preceded by
Sir Thomas Western, Bt
Lord Lieutenant of Essex
1873 – 1892
Succeeded by
The Lord Rayleigh
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New title Baron Carlingford
1874–1898
Extinct
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by
Thomas Fortescue
Baron Clermont
1887–1898
Extinct
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