biography
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| lived:
| (1799–1882)
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| biography:
| British statesman, born in Gibraltar. He studied at Oxford, but relinquished law after succeeding his father in the baronetcy in 1828. He was MP for Devonport (1832–47), under-secretary for the Colonies (1834–5), judge-advocate (1839), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1841), and in 1846 home secretary. During the Chartist disturbances he discharged his duties with vigour and discrimination. He carried the Crown and Government Security Bill, the Alien Bill, and a measure for the further suspension in Ireland of the Habeas Corpus Act (1849). In 1854 he became colonial secretary, and in 1855 took his old post of home secretary. |
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