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BLACHFORD, See also:FREDERIC See also:ROGERS, See also:BARON (1811-1889) , See also:British See also:civil servant, eldest son of See also:Sir See also:Frederick Leman Rogers, 7th See also:Bart. (whom he succeeded in the baronetcy in 1851), was See also:born in See also:London on the 3i st of See also:January 1811. He was educated at See also:Eton and See also:Oriel See also:College, See also:Oxford, where he had a brilliant career, winning the See also:Craven University scholarship, and taking a See also:double first-class in See also:classics and See also:mathematics. He became a See also:fellow of Oriel (1833), and won the Vinerian scholarship (1834), and fellowship (184o). He was called to the See also:bar in 1837, but never practised. At school and at Oxford he was a contemporary of W. E. See also:Gladstone, and at Oxford he began a lifelong friendship with J. H. See also:Newman and R. W. See also:Church; his classical and See also:literary tastes, and his See also:combination of liberalism in politics with High Church views in See also:religion, together with his See also:good social position and interesting See also:character, made him an admired member of their circles.

For two or three years (1841-1844) he wrote for The Times, and he helped to found The See also:

Guardian in 1846; he also did a good See also:deal to assist the Tractarian See also:movement. But he eventually settled down to the See also:life of a See also:government See also:official. He began in 1844 as registrar of See also:joint-stock companies, and in 1846 became See also:commissioner of lands and See also:emigration. Between 1857 and 1859 he was engaged in government See also:missions abroad, connected with colonial questions, and in 186o he was appointed permanent under-secretary of See also:state for the colonies. Sir Frederic Rogers was the guiding spirit of the colonial See also:office under. six successive secretaries of state, and on his retirement in 1871 was raised to the See also:peerage as Baron Blachford of Wisdome, a See also:title taken from his See also:place in See also:Devonshire. He died on the 21st of See also:November 1889. A See also:volume of his letters, edited by G. E. Marindin (1896), contains an interesting Life, partly autobiographical.

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