- Charles Adderley, 1st Baron Norton
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The Right Honourable
The Lord Norton
PCPresident of the Board of Health In office
8 March 1858 – 1 September 1858Monarch Victoria Prime Minister The Earl of Derby Preceded by Hon. William Cowper Succeeded by Office abolished Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies In office
6 July 1866 – 1 December 1868Monarch Victoria Prime Minister The Earl of Derby
Benjamin DisraeliPreceded by William Edward Forster Succeeded by William Monsell President of the Board of Trade In office
21 February 1874 – 4 April 1878Monarch Victoria Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli Preceded by Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue Succeeded by Viscount Sandon Personal details Born 2 August 1814 Died 28 March 1905 Nationality British Political party Conservative Spouse(s) Hon. Julia Leigh
(1820-1887)Alma mater Christ Church, Oxford Charles Bowyer Adderley, 1st Baron Norton PC (2 August 1814 – 28 March 1905) was a British Conservative politician.
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Background and education
Norton was the eldest son of Charles Clement Adderley (d. 1818), offspring of an old Staffordshire family, and his wife, daughter of Sir Edmund Cradock-Hartopp, 1st Baronet.[1] Adderley inherited Hams Hall, Warwickshire and the valuable estates of his great-uncle, Charles Bowyer Adderley, in 1826. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1838.[1]
Political career
In 1841, Norton entered the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for North Staffordshire, retaining his seat until 1878, when he was created Baron Norton. Adderley's ministerial career began in 1858, when he was appointed President of the Board of Health and Vice-President of the Committee of the Council on Education in Lord Derby's short ministry.[1] Again under Lord Derby he was Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1866 to 1868, being in charge of the act which called the Dominion of Canada into being, and from 1874 to 1878 he was President of the Board of Trade. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1858[2] and in 1878 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Norton, of Norton-on-the-Moors in the County of Stafford.[3] Norton was a strong churchman and especially interested in education and the colonies.
Family
In 1842 he married Julia Anne Eliza (1820–1887), oldest daughter of Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh, by whom he had several sons. His eldest son Charles Leigh Adderley succeeded him in the barony. Another son, the Hon. James Granville Adderley, vicar of Saltley, Birmingham, became well known as an advocate of Christian socialism.
Tributes
Adderley Street is a famous street in Cape Town, South Africa, considered the main street of the central business district. In 1850, the Mayor of Cape Town, Hercules Jarvis, named it to honour Adderley who had fought successfully against a proposal to make Cape Town into a penal colony.
Adderley must be one of the few people to have two streets named after him in a single town: Adderley Street and Norton Street, both in Uppingham, Rutland where he owned property.
In Birmingham, Adderley donated 8 acres (0.032 km2) of land to create Adderley Park,[4] which he managed privately from 1855 to 1864. He also donated land for the construction of St Saviour's Church, St Peter's College and the reformatory on the Fordrough, later called Norton Boys' Home. In 1879 Lord Norton sold Whitacre Lodge to the city for the construction of the 80 acres (0.32 km2) Shustoke Reservoir, the largest single source of water for Birmingham until the Elan/Claerwen scheme was completed.[4]
External links
- Archival material relating to Charles Adderley, 1st Baron Norton listed at the UK National Register of Archives
References
- ^ a b c Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co.. pp. 83–84.
- ^ The London Gazette, 26 February 1858
- ^ The London Gazette, 16 April 1878
- ^ a b "Adderley Estate". bgfl.org. http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/teacher/history/jm_jones/aston_manors/saltley/page16.htm. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
- W.S. Childe-Pemberton, The Life of Lord Norton (1909)
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Parliament of the United Kingdom Preceded by
Edward Manningham-Buller
Hon. Bingham BaringMember of Parliament for Staffordshire North
1841 – 1878
With: Jesse David Watts Russell 1841–1847
Viscount Brackley 1847–1851
Smith Child 1851–1859
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1858Succeeded by
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1858Succeeded by
Robert LowePreceded by
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1866–1868Succeeded by
William MonsellPreceded by
Chichester Parkinson-FortescuePresident of the Board of Trade
1874–1878Succeeded by
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