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See also:ASHBURTON, See also:ALEXANDER See also:BARING , 1st BARON1 (1774–1848), See also:English politician and financier, 2nd son of See also:Sir See also:Francis Baring (the founder of the See also:house of Baring See also:Brothers & Co.) and of Harriet, daughter of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Herring, was See also:born on the 27th of See also:October 1774, and was brought up in his See also:father's business. He was sent by the latter to the See also:United States; married See also:Anne, daughter of William See also:Bingham, of See also:Philadelphia, and formed wide connexions with See also:American houses. In 181o, by his father's See also:death, he became See also:head of the See also:firm. He sat in See also:parliament for See also:Taunton (1806-1826), Callington (1826-1831), See also:Thetford (1831-1832), See also:North See also:Essex (1832-18J5). He regarded politics from the point of view of the business See also:man, opposed the orders in See also:council, and the restrictions on See also:trade with the United States in 1812, and in 1826 the See also:act for the suppression of small See also:bank-notes. He was a strong antagonist of Reform. He accepted the See also:post of See also:chancellor of the See also:exchequer in the See also:duke of See also:Wellington's projected See also:ministry of 1832; but afterwards, alarmed at the See also:scene in parliament, declared " he would See also:face a thousand devils rather than such a House of See also:Commons," and advised the recall
1 e. in the existing See also:line; see below for the earlier creation.
of See also:Lord See also:Grey. In 1834 he was See also:president of the See also:board of trade and See also:master of the See also:mint in Sir See also:Robert See also:Peel's See also:government, and on the latter's retirement was created See also:Baron Ashburton on the loth of See also:April 1835, taking the See also:title previously held by See also:John Dunning, his aunt's See also:husband. In 1842 he was despatched to See also:America, and the same See also:year concluded the Ashburton or See also:Webster-Ashburton treaty. A See also:compromise was settled concerning the north-See also:east boundary of See also:Maine, the See also:extradition of certain criminals was arranged, each See also:state agreed to maintain a See also:squadron of at least eighty guns on the See also:coast of See also:Africa for the suppression of the slave trade, and the two governments agreed to unite in an effort to persuade other See also:powers to See also:close all slave markets within their territories. Despite his earlier attitude, Lord Ashburton disapproved of Peel's See also:free-trade projects, and opposed the Bank See also:Charter Act of 1844. He was a trustee of the See also:British Museum and of the See also:National See also:Gallery, a privy councillor and D.C.L. of See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford. He published, besides several speeches, An Enquiry into the Causes and Consequences of the Orders in Council (18o8), and The See also:Financial and Commercial Crisis Considered (1847). He died on the 13th of May 1848, leaving a large See also:family, his eldest son becoming 2nd baron. The 5th baron (b. 1866) succeeded to the title in 1889.
End of Article: ASHBURTON, ALEXANDER BARING
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