Sir Stafford Henry NORTHCOTE

1818 - 1887  (68 years)

• Name	Stafford Henry NORTHCOTE
  Title	Sir
  Born	27 Oct 1818
  Gender	Male
  Died	12 Jan 1887
  Person ID	I1558	Davidson-Radford

  
  

  Father	Henry Stafford NORTHCOTE,   b. 18 Mar 1792, Upton Pyne, Devonshire, England ,   d. 22 Feb 1850  (Age 57 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Agnes Mary COCKBURN,   b. UNKNOWN,   d. 9 Apr 1840
  Relationship	natural
  Married	13 Nov 1815  [1]
  Family ID	F1713	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Cecilia Frances FARRER,   b. UNKNOWN,   d. 17 Jan 1910
  Married	5 Aug 1843
  Children	1. Mabel NORTHCOTE,   b. UNKNOWN,   d. 1851  [natural ]   2. Agnes Mary Cecilia NORTHCOTE,   b. UNKNOWN,   d. 26 Oct 1921  [natural ]   3. Margaret Stafford NORTHCOTE,   b. UNKNOWN,   d. 20 Jul 1947  [natural ]   4. Walter Stafford NORTHCOTE,   b. 7 Aug 1845,   d. 26 May 1927  (Age 81 years)  [natural ]   5. Henry Stafford NORTHCOTE,   b. 18 Nov 1846,   d. 29 Sep 1911  (Age 64 years)  [natural ]   6. John Stafford NORTHCOTE,   b. 3 Jan 1850,   d. 5 Jun 1920  (Age 70 years)  [natural ]   7. Arthur Francis NORTHCOTE,   b. 2 Nov 1852,   d. UNKNOWN  [natural ]   8. Hugh Oliver NORTHCOTE,   b. 19 Nov 1854,   d. UNKNOWN  [natural ]   9. Edward Louis NORTHCOTE,   b. 25 Aug 1857,   d. UNKNOWN  [natural ]
  Family ID	F436	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh GCB PC (27 October 18 18 ? 12 January 1887), British statesman, was born in London on 27 Oct ober 1818. His ancestors had long been settled in Devon, tracing thei descent from Galfridas de Nordcote who settled there in 1103. Afte Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, he became in 1843 Private Secretar y to William Ewart Gladstone at the Board of Trade. He was afterward s Legal Secretary to the Board; and after acting as one of the secreta ies to the Great Exhibition of 1851, co-operated with Sir Charles Tre velyan in framing the report which revolutionized the conditions of ap pointment to the Civil Service. He succeeded his grandfather, Sir Staf ford Henry Northcote, as 8th Baronet in 1851. He entered Parliament i 1855 as Conservative Member of Parliament for Dudley, and was electe d for Stamford in 1858, a seat which he exchanged in 1866 for North De von. Steadily supporting his party, he became President of the Boar d of Trade in 1866, Secretary of State for India in 1867, and Chancell or of the Exchequer in 1874. In the interval between these last two ap pointments he was the president of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1870, w hen they gave the Northwest Territories to Canada, and one of the comm issioners for the settlement of the Alabama difficulty at the Treaty o f Washington with the United States in 1871. On Disraeli's elevatio to the House of Lords as Earl of Beaconsfield in 1876 he became lead er of the Conservative party in the Commons. As a finance minister h e was largely dominated by the lines of policy laid down by Gladstone ; but he distinguished himself by his dealings with the Debt, especial ly his introduction of the New Sinking fund in 1876, by which he fixe d the annual charge for the Debt in such a way as to provide for a reg ular series of payments off the capital. His temper as leader was, how ever, too gentle to satisfy the more ardent spirits among his own foll owers, and party cabals (in which Lord Randolph Churchill, who had mad e a dead set at the "old gang," took a leading part) led to Sir Staffo d's elevation to the Lords in 1885, when Lord Salisbury became prim e minister. Taking the titles of Earl of Iddesleigh and Viscount St Cy es, he was included in the cabinet as First Lord of the Treasury. I Lord Salisbury's 1886 ministry he became Foreign Secretary, but th e arrangement was not a comfortable one, and his resignation had jus t been decided upon when on 12 January 1887 he died very suddenly at L ord Salisbury's official residence in Downing Street. Lord Iddesleig h was elected Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh in 1883, in w hich capacity he addressed the students on the subject of "Desultory R eading". He was not a prolific or notable writer, but amongst his work s were Twenty Years of Financial Policy (1862), a valuable study of Gl adstonian finance, and Lectures and Essays (1887). His Life by Andre w Lang appeared in 1890. Lord Iddesleigh married in 1843 Cecilia Franc es Farrer (d. 1910) (sister of Thomas, 1st Lord Farrer), by whom he ha d seven sons and three daughters. His second son, Henry, 1st Baron Nor thcote, was Governor-General of Australia 1904?1908. (Source: Wikiped ia: h t tp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Northcote,_1st_Earl_of_Idd esleigh)

  
  

• Sources

  [S17] Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th Edition , Mosley, Charles (ed.) , (Name: Name: Wilmington, Delaware, USA: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical B ooks) Ltd, 2003;; ), Mosley, Charles (ed.), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th Edition, Wilmington, Delaware, USA: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Vol. 1, p. 23 .