Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin
- Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin
Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin (22 December 1840 – 29 May 1923) was a British Conservative Party politician and sportsman.
The second son of the Rev. Henry Chaplin, of Blankney, Lincolnshire, he was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford, and first entered parliament at the 1868 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid-Lincolnshire. He represented this constituency until its dissolution for the 1885 general election(under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885), when he was returned to Parliament for the new Sleaford division. He held this seat until he was defeated at the 1906 general election, but in 1907 returned to the House of Commons at a by-election as member for Wimbledon.
In 1876 he married a daughter of the 3rd Duke of Sutherland, but lost his wife in 1881. Outside the House of Commons he was a familiar figure on the Turf, winning the Derby with Hermit in 1867; and in politics from the first the "Squire of Blankney" took an active interest in agricultural questions, as a popular and typical representative of the English "country gentleman" class.
Having filled the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in Lord Salisbury's short ministry of 1885-1886, he became the first President of the Board of Agriculture in 1889, with a seat in the cabinet, and retained this post till 1892. In the Conservative cabinet of 1895-1900 he was President of the Local Government Board, and was responsible for the Agricultural Rates Act 1896; but he was not included in the ministry after its reconstruction in 1900. Chaplin had always been an advocate of protectionism, being in this respect the most prominent inheritor of the views of Lord George Bentinck; and when in 1903 the tariff reform movement began under Chamberlain's leadership, he gave it his enthusiastic support, becoming a member of the Tariff Commission and one of the most strenuous advocates in the country of the new doctrines in opposition to free trade.
He was made Viscount Chaplin in 1916. Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry was his daughter.
References
*1911
Wikimedia Foundation.
2010.
Look at other dictionaries:
Viscount Chaplin — The title Viscount Chaplin is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created in 1916 for Henry Chaplin, a Tory MP, Cabinet minister, country landowner and racehorse owner. The title became extinct upon the death of the third viscount with… … Wikipedia
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma — Admiral of the Fleet The Right Honourable The Earl Mountbatten of Burma KG GCB OM GCSI GCIE GCVO DSO PC FRS … Wikipedia
The Chaplin Society — is the informal name of The Most Excellent and Venerable Guild of Ely, by the Grace of Charles, King and Martyr, in honour of Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin. The Chaplin Society is a monarchist gentlemen s dining society, based at Peterhouse … Wikipedia
Sir Richard Sutton, 1st Baronet — (31 July 1733 10 January 1802, died aged 68), of Norwood Park in Nottinghamshire was an English Member of Parliament.He entered Parliament in 1768 as member for St. Albans which he represented until 1780. In September 1780, he was simultaneously… … Wikipedia
List of Conservative Party (UK) MPs — This is a list of Conservative Party MPs. It includes all Members of Parliament elected to the British House of Commons representing the Conservative Party from 1834 onwards. Members of the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly or the European… … Wikipedia
List of English people — This is a partial list of English people of note and of some notable individuals born in England, alphabetically within categories.Actors and actresses*Dame Julie Andrews (born 1935) *Naveen Andrews (born 1969) *Gabrielle Anwar (born 1970) *Rowan … Wikipedia
List of University of Edinburgh people — is a list of notable graduates and former faculty of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. The University is associated with nine Nobel Prize winners (Source: http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/edinburgh/alumni.html)Politics and… … Wikipedia
List of east–west roads in Toronto — The following is a list of the east–west arterial thoroughfares in the Canadian city of Toronto. The city is organized in a grid pattern dating back to the plan laid out by Augustus Jones between 1793 and 1797. Most streets are aligned in the… … Wikipedia
List of Privy Counsellors (1837–1901) — This is a List of Privy Counsellors of the United Kingdom appointed during the reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1901. = Victoria, 1837 1901 = 1837*Henry Stephen Fox Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester (1787–1858) *Henry Charles Howard, Earl of … Wikipedia
Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry — The Most Honourable The Marquess of Londonderry KG, MVO PC, PC (Ire) December 1939 … Wikipedia
