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See also:CHILDERS, See also:HUGH CULLING EARDLEY (1827-1896) , See also:British statesman, was See also:born in See also:London on the 25th of See also:June 1827. On leaving See also:Cambridge he went out to See also:Australia (185o), and became a member of the See also:government of See also:Victoria, but in 18J7 returned to See also:England as See also:agent-See also:general of the See also:colony. Entering See also:parliament in 186o as Liberal member for See also:Pontefract (a seat that he continued to hold till 1885), he became See also:civil See also:lord of the See also:admiralty in 1864, and in 1865 See also:financial secretary to the See also:treasury. Childers occupied a See also:succession of prominent posts in the various See also:Gladstone ministries. He was first lord of the admiralty from 1868 to 1871, and as such inaugurated a policy of See also:retrenchment. See also:Ill-See also:health compelled his resignation of See also:office in 1871, but next See also:year he returned to the See also:ministry as See also:chancellor of the duchy of See also:Lancaster. From 188o to 1882 he was secretary for See also:war, a See also:post he accepted somewhat unwillingly; and in that position he had to See also:bear the responsibility for the reforms which were introduced into the war office under the parsimonious conditions which were then See also:part of the Liberal creed. During his See also:term of office the See also:Egyptian War occurred, in which Childers acted with creditable See also:energy; and also the See also:Boer War, in which he and his colleagues showed to less See also:advantage. From 1882 to 1885 he was chancellor of the See also:exchequer, and the See also:beer and spirit See also:duty in his See also:budget of the latter year was the occasion of the government's fall. Defeated at the general See also:election a.t Pontefract, he was returned as a See also:Home Ruler (one of the few Liberals who adopted this policy before Mr Gladstone's See also:conversion) in 1886 for See also:South See also:Edinburgh, and was home secretary in the ministry of 1886. When the first Home See also:Rule See also:bill was introduced he demurred privately to its financial clauses, and their withdrawal was largely due to his See also:threat of resignation. He retired from parliament in 1892, and died on the 29th of See also:January 1896, his last piece of See also:work being the drafting of a See also:report for the royal See also:commission on Irish financial relations, of which he was chairman. Childers was a capable and industrious See also:administrator of the old Liberal school, and he did his best, in the See also:political conditions then prevailing, to improve the See also:naval and military See also:administration while he was at the admiralty and war office. His own See also:bent was towards See also:finance, but no striking reform is associated with his name. His most ambitious effort was his See also:attempt to effect a conversion of See also:consols in 1884, but the See also:scheme proved a failure, though it paved the way for the subsequent conversion in 1888. The See also:Life (1901) of Mr Childers, by his son, throws some interesting See also:side-See also:lights on the inner See also:history of more than one Gladstonian See also:cabinet. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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