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CHAPLIN, HENRY (1841– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 852 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHAPLIN, See also:HENRY (1841– ) , See also:English statesman, second son of the Rev. Henry Chaplin, of Blankney, See also:Lincolnshire, was educated at See also:Harrow and See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, and first entered See also:parliament in 1868 as Conservative member for See also:Mid-Lincolnshire. He represented this See also:constituency (which under the Redistribution See also:Act of 1885 became the See also:Sleaford See also:division) till 1906, when he was defeated, but in 1907 returned to the See also:House of See also:Commons as member for See also:Wimbledon at a by-See also:election. In 1876 he married a daughter of the 3rd See also:duke of See also:Sutherland, but lost his wife in 1881. Outside the House of Commons he was a familial figure on the See also:Turf, winning the See also:Derby with See also:Hermit in 1867; and in politics from the first the " See also:Squire of Blankney " took an active See also:interest in agricultural questions, as a popular and typical representative of the English "See also:country See also:gentleman" class. Having filled the See also:office of See also:chancellor of the duchy of See also:Lancaster in See also:Lord See also:Salisbury's See also:short See also:ministry of 1885–1886, he became See also:president of the new See also:Board of See also:Agriculture in 1889, with a seat in the See also:cabinet, and retained this See also:post till 1892. In the Conservative cabinet of 1895–1900 he was president of the See also:Local See also:Government Board, and was responsible for the Agricultural Rates Act of 1896; but he was not included in the ministry after its reconstruction in 1900. Mr Chaplin had always been an See also:advocate of protectionism, being in this respect the most prominent inheritor of the views of Lord See also:George See also:Bentinck; and when in 1903 the See also:Tariff Reform See also:movement began under Mr See also:Chamberlain's leadership, he gave it his enthusiastic support, becoming a member of the Tariff See also:Commission and one of the most strenuous See also:advocates in the country of the new doctrines in opposition to See also:free See also:trade.

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