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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 339 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARLINGFORD, See also:CHICHESTER See also:SAMUEL See also:FORTESCUE, See also:BARON (1823–1898) , See also:British statesman, son of Chichester Fortes-cue (d. 1826),M.P. for See also:Louth in the Irish See also:parliament, was See also:born in See also:January 1823. He came of an old See also:family settled in See also:Ireland since the days of See also:Sir Faithful Fortescue (1581–1666), whose See also:uncle, See also:Lord Chichester, was lord See also:deputy. The See also:history of the family was written by his See also:elder See also:brother See also:Thomas (1815-1887), who in 1852 was created Baron Clermont. The future Lord Carlingford, then Mr Chichester Fortescue, went to See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, where he took a first in See also:classics (1844) and won the See also:chancellor's See also:English See also:essay (1846); and in 1847 he was elected to parliament for Louth as a Liberal. He became a junior lord of the See also:treasury in 1854, and subsequently held See also:minor offices in the Liberal administrations till in 1865 he was made See also:chief secretary for Ireland under Lord See also:Russell, a See also:post which he again occupied under See also:Gladstone in 1868–187o; he then became See also:president of the See also:Board of See also:Trade (1871–1874), and later lord privy See also:seal (1881–1885) and president of the See also:council (1883–1885). He was raised to the See also:peerage in 1874. He parted from Gladstone on the question of Irish See also:Home See also:Rule, but in earlier years he was his active supporter on Irish questions. His See also:influence in society was due largely to his wife, Frances (1821–1879), previously the wife of the 7th See also:Earl See also:Waldegrave, whom he married in 1863. In 1887 his brother, Lord Clermont, died, and Carlingford inherited his peerage; but on his own See also:death without issue on the 3oth of January 1898 both titles became See also:extinct.

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