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HENRY CHARLES KEITH PETTY FITZIIAURICE

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 185 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:CHARLES See also:KEITH See also:PETTY FITZIIAURICE , 5th See also:marquess oI See also:Lansdowne (b. 1845), was educated at Balliol, See also:Oxford, where he became one of See also:Jowett's favourite pupils. In 1869 he married the daughter of the 1st See also:duke of See also:Abercorn. As a member of the Liberal party he was a See also:lord of the See also:treasury (1869–1872), under-secretary of See also:war (1872-1874), and under-secretary of See also:India (r88o); in 1883 he was appointed See also:governor-See also:general of See also:Canada, and from 1888 to 1893 he was See also:viceroy of India. He joined the Liberal Unionist party when Mr See also:Gladstone proposed See also:home See also:rule for See also:Ireland, and on returning to See also:England became one of its most influential leaders. He was secretary of See also:state for war from 1895 to 1900, and See also:foreign secretary from 1900 to 1906, becoming See also:leader of the Unionist party in the See also:House of Lords on Lord See also:Salisbury's See also:death. His See also:brother EDMOND See also:GEORGE FITZMAURICE, See also:Baron Fitzmaurice (b. 1846), was educated at Trinity, See also:Cambridge, where he took a first class in See also:classics. Unlike Lord Lansdowne, he remained a Liberal in politics and followed Mr Gladstone in his home rule policy. As Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice he entered the House of See also:Commons in 1868, and was under-secretary for foreign affairs from 1882 to 1885. He then had no seat in See also:parliament till 1898, when he was elected for the See also:Cricklade See also:division of Wilts, and retiring in 1905, he was created Baron Fitzmaurice of See also:Leigh in 1906, and made under-secretary for foreign affairs in See also:Sir Henry See also:Campbell-Bannerman's See also:ministry. In 1908 he became See also:chancellor of the duchy of See also:Lancaster and a member of the Liberal See also:cabinet, but resigned his See also:post in 1909.

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time to See also:literary See also:work, and was the author of excellent See also:biographies of the 1st marquess, of Sir See also:William Petty (1895), and of Lord See also:Granville (1905), under whom he had served at the foreign See also:office. For the 1st marquess, see Lord Fitzmaurice, See also:Life of William, See also:Earl of Shelburne (3 vols., See also:London, 1875-1876).

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