Charles George Milnes Gaskell

Charles George Milnes Gaskell

Charles George Milnes Gaskell PC (23 January 1842 – 9 January 1919) was an English lawyer and Liberal Party politician.

Milnes Gaskell was the son of James Milnes Gaskell M.P., of Thornes House, Wakefield, and Wenlock Abbey and his wife Mary Williams-Wynn. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge and was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1866.[1] He was a J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire.[2]

Milnes Gaskell stood unsuccessfully in Pontefract in 1868 and at Knaresborough in 1881.[3] At the 1885 general election he was elected Member of Parliament for Morley and held it until he retired from politics at the 1892 general election.[4] He was awarded an Honorary LLD by the University of Leeds in 1904.[5] and was made a Privy Counsellor in 1908.

Milnes Gaskell died at the age of 76.

Milnes Gaskell married Lady Catherine Henrietta Wallop, daughter of the 5th Earl of Portsmouth in 1876. He lived at Thornes House, Wakefield and at Wenlock Abbey, Shropshire.

References

  1. ^ Gaskell, Charles George Milnes in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
  2. ^ Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
  3. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 172, 243. ISBN 0-900178-26-4. 
  4. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 439. ISBN 0-900178-27-2. 
  5. ^ Leeds University - Honorary Graduates
Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency Member of Parliament for Morley
18851892
Succeeded by
Alfred Hutton

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