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GRAHAM, SIR JAMES ROBERT GEORGE

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 318 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GRAHAM, See also:SIR See also:JAMES See also:ROBERT See also:GEORGE , See also:Bart. (1792-1861), See also:British statesman, son of a See also:baronet, was See also:born at Naworth, See also:Cumberland, on the 1st of See also:June 1792, and was educated at See also:Westminster and See also:Oxford. Shortly after quitting the university, while making the " See also:grand tour " abroad, he became private secretary to the British See also:minister in See also:Sicily. Returning to See also:England in 1818 he was elected to See also:parliament as member for See also:Hull in the Whig See also:interest; but he was unseated at the See also:election of 1820. In 1824 he succeeded to the baronetcy; and in 1826 he re-entered parliament as representative for See also:Carlisle, a seat which he soon exchanged for the See also:county of Cumberland. In the same See also:year he published a pamphlet entitled " See also:Corn and Currency," which brought him into prominence as a See also:man of advanced Liberal opinions; and he became one of the most energetic See also:advocates in parliament of the Reform See also:Bill. On the formation of See also:Earl See also:Grey's See also:administration he received the See also:post of first See also:lord of the See also:admiralty, with a seat in the See also:cabinet. From 1832 to 1837 he sat for the eastern See also:division of the county of Cumberland. Dissensions on .the Irish See also:Church question led to his withdrawal from the See also:ministry in 1834, and ultimately to his joining the Conservative party. Rejected by his former constituents in 1837, he was in 1838 elected for See also:Pembroke, and in 1841 for See also:Dorchester. In the latter year he took See also:office under Sir Robert See also:Peel as secretary of See also:state for the See also:home See also:department, a post he retained until 1846. As home secretary he incurred considerable odium in See also:Scotland, by his unconciliating policy on the church question See also:prior to the " disruption " of 1843; and in 1844 the detention and opening of letters at the post-office by his See also:warrant raised a See also:storm of public indignation, which was hardly allayed by the favourable See also:report of a See also:parliamentary See also:committee of investigation.

From 1846 to 1852 he was out of office; but in the latter year he joined Lord See also:

Aberdeen's cabinet as first lord of the admiralty, in which capacity he acted also for a See also:short. See also:time in the See also:Palmerston ministry of 1855. The See also:appointment of a select committee of inquiry into the conduct of the See also:Russian See also:war ultimately led to his withdrawal from See also:official See also:life. He continued as a private member to exercise a considerable See also:influence on parliamentary See also:opinion. He died at Netherby, Cumberland, on the 25th of See also:October 1861. His Life, by C. S. See also:Parker, was published in 1907.

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