Men-at-the-Bar/Northcote, Rt. Hon. Sir Stafford Henry, Bart.

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by Joseph Foster
Northcote, Rt. Hon. Sir Stafford Henry, Bart.
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Northcote, Rt. Hon. Sir Stafford Henry, Bart., G.C.B., P.C, M.A., Balliol Coll., Oxon, 1842 (from Eton), hon. D.C.L. 1863, M.P. North Devon since 1866, Dudley 1855-7, Stamford 1858-66, private secretary to Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone when president of the Board of Trade 1843-5, legal secretary to the Board of Trade 1847, financial secretary to the treasury Jan. to June, 1859, president of the Board of Trade 1866-7, secretary of state for India 1867-8, chancellor of the exchequer 1874-80, a secretary to the great exhibition in 1851, a special commissioner to United States to arrange the Alabama treaty 1871, J.P., D.L. Devon, sometime capt. 1st Devon yeomanry cavalry, lord rector of Edinburgh Univ. 1883, a student of the Inner Temple 7 Jan., 1840 (then aged 21), called to the bar 19 Nov., 1847 (eldest son of Henry Stafford Northcote, Esq., of Pynes, Exeter); born 27 Oct., 1818; married 5 Aug., 1843, Cecilia Frances (c.i.), dau. of Thomas Farrer, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, and has issue (see Foster's Baronetage),

Pynes, Exeter; 30, St. James' Place, S.W.; Carlton and Athenæum Clubs, S.W.