- George Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley
George John Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley, PC, DL (
12 June 1831 –19 April 1928 ) was a British Liberal politician.The only son of Sir John George Shaw-Lefevre KCB and Rachel Enid Wright, and a nephew of
Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley , he was educated at Eton and atTrinity College, Cambridge . In 1874 he married Constance Moreton, daughter ofHenry John Reynolds Moreton, 3rd Earl of Ducie . He became a barrister in 1855, and a Bencher of the Inner Temple in 1882.Shaw-Lefevre was unsuccessful Liberal candidate for Winchester in 1859 and a member of Sea Fisheries Commission, 1862. He was
Member of Parliament for Reading from 1863-1885 and for Bradford Central from 1885-1895.Shaw-Lefevre served in government as
Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1856; Commissioner to negotiate a Convention on Fisheries with French Government, 1858; carried vote in House of Commons for arbitration of the Alabama claims, 1868. He wasParliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1869-1871 andUnder-Secretary of State for the Home Department from January to March 1871,First Secretary of the Admiralty from 1871-1874,First Commissioner of Works from 1881-1883, and Postmaster-General from 1884-1885. He was again First Commissioner of Works and a member of Gladstone's Cabinet in 1892-1894 andPresident of the Local Government Board from 1894-1895. He was elected a Member of theLondon County Council in 1897, as Progressive for the Haggerston Division.He was Chairman of
Royal Commission s on the Loss of Life at Sea in 1885, and on the Agricultural Depression, 1893-1896. In 1866 he founded theCommons Preservation Society , and was President of the Statistical Society of London from 1878-1879. Shaw-Lefevre was created 1stBaron Eversley in 1906. The title became extinct on his death.
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