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See also:GOULBURN, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY (1784-1856) , See also:English statesman, was See also:born in See also:London on the 19th of See also:March 1784 and was educated at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge. In r8o8 he became member of See also:parliament for See also:Horsham; in 1810 he was appointed under-secretary for See also:home affairs and two and a See also:half years later he was made under-secretary for See also:war and the colonies. Still retaining See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in the Tory See also:government he became a privy councillor in 1821, and just afterwards was appointed See also:chief secretary to the See also:lord-See also:lieutenant of See also:Ireland, a position which he held until See also:April 1827. Here although frequently denounced as an Orangeman, his See also:period of office was on the whole a successful one, and in 1823 he managed to pass the Irish Tithe See also:Composition See also:Bill. In See also:January 1828 he was made See also:chancellor of the See also:exchequer under the See also:duke of See also:Wellington; like his See also:leader he disliked See also:Roman See also:Catholic emancipation, which he voted against in 1828. In the domain of See also:finance Goulburn's chief achievements were to reduce the See also:rate of See also:interest on See also:part of the See also:national See also:debt, and to allow any one to sell See also:beer upon See also:payment of a small See also:annual See also:fee, a See also:complete See also:change of policy with regard to the drink See also:traffic. Leaving office with Wellington in See also:November 1830, Goulburn was home secretary under See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Peel for four months in 1835, and when this statesman returned to office in See also:September 1841 he became chancellor of the exchequer for the second See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. Although Peel himself did some of the chancellor's See also:work, Goulburn was responsible for a further reduction in the rate of interest on the national debt, and he aided his chief in the struggle which ended in the See also:repeal of the See also:corn See also:laws. With his colleagues he See also:left office in See also:June 1846. After representing Horsham in the See also:House of See also:Commons for over four years Goulburn was successively member for St Germans, for See also:West See also:Looe, and for the See also:city of See also:Armagh. In May 1831 he was elected for Cambridge University, and he retained this seat until his See also:death on the 12th of January 1856
at Betchworth House, See also:Dorking. Goulburn was one of Peel's firmest supporters and most intimate See also:friends. His eldest son, Henry (1813-1843), was See also:senior classic and second wrangler at Cambridge in 1835.
See S. See also:Walpole, See also:History of See also:England (1878-1886).
End of Article: GOULBURN, HENRY (1784-1856)
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