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Authorised form of nameNorthcote; Stafford Henry (1818 - 1887); 1st Earl of Iddesleigh and Viscount St Cyres
Dates1818 - 1887
NationalityBritish
Place of birth23 Portland Place, London, England
Date of birth27 October 1818
Place of deathThe ante-room of the Prime Minister's house in Downing Street, London
Date of death12 January 1887
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Upton Pyne, Devon
ActivityEducation:
Eton; Balliol College, Oxford. BA (1839), MA (1842)
Career:
MP for Dudley (1855-1857); MP for Stamford (1858-1866); Financial Secretary to the Treasury (1859); MP for North Devon (1866-1885); Privy Councillor (1866); President of the Board of Trade (1866-1867); Secretary of State for India (1867-1868); Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons (1874-1880); Foreign Secretary (1886-1887)
Honours:
CB 1851; GCB 1880; Earl of Iddesleigh and Viscount St Cyres 1885
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/02/1875
RelationshipsSon of Henry Stafford Northcote; succeeded his grandfather as 8th Baronet
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
Vanity Fair 08 October 1870, 05 July 1881
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/10627317
CodeNA6544
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1875/01Northcote, Stafford Henry, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh and Viscount St Cyres: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/257/3/203Letter from Stafford Henry Northcote, Earl of Iddesleigh to Edward Sabine11 November 1867
MC/10/258Letter from Stafford H [Henry] Northcote, [Chancellor of the Exchequer], 11 Downing Street, Whitehall, to Dr [William Benjamin] Carpenter22 May 1875
MC/10Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal SocietyJuly 1873-1876
MS/257/4/101Copy of a letter from Edward Sabine to [Thomas Henry] Farrer for Stafford Northcote6 November 1867
MS/257/4/102Copy of a letter from Edward Sabine to [Thomas Henry] Farrer for Stafford Northcote with draft reply from Northcote6 November 1867
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