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HENRY PETTY FITZMAURICE

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 184 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:PETTY FITZMAURICE , 3rd See also:marquess of See also:Lansdowne (178o-1863), son of the 1st marquess by his second See also:marriage, was See also:born on the 2nd of See also:July 1780 and educated at See also:Edinburgh University and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge. He entered the See also:House of See also:Commons in 1802 as member for the See also:family See also:borough of See also:Calne and quickly showed his mettle as a politician. In See also:February 1806, as See also:Lord Henry Petty, he became See also:chancellor of the See also:exchequer in the See also:ministry of " All the Talents," being at this See also:time member for the university of Cambridge; but he lost both his seat and his See also:office in 1807. In 1809 he became marquess of Lansdowne; and in the House of Lords and in society he continued to See also:play an active See also:part as one of the Whig leaders. His See also:chief See also:interest was perhaps in the question of See also:Roman See also:Catholic emancipation, a cause which he consistently championed, but he sympathized also with the See also:advocates of the abolition of the slave-See also:trade and with the cause of popular See also:education. Lansdowne, who had succeeded his See also:cousin, See also:Francis See also:Thomas Fitzmaurice, as 4th See also:earl of See also:Kerry in 1818, took office with See also:Canning in May 1827 and was secretary for See also:home affairs from July of that See also:year until See also:January 1828; he was lord See also:president of the See also:council under Earl See also:Grey and then under Lord See also:Melbourne from See also:November 1830 to See also:August 1841, with the exception of the few months in 1835 when See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Peel was See also:prime See also:minister. He held the same office during the whole of Lord See also:John See also:Russell's ministry (1846-1852), and, having declined to become prime minister, sat in the cabinets of Lord See also:Aberdeen and of Lord See also:Palmerston, but without office. In 1857 he refused the offer of a dukedom, and he died on the 31st of January 1863. Lansdowne's social See also:influence and See also:political moderation made him one of the most powerful Whig statesmen of the time; he was frequently consulted by See also:Queen See also:Victoria on matters of moment, and his See also:long See also:official experience made his counsel invaluable to his party. He married Louisa (1785-1851), daughter of the and earl of See also:Ilchester, and was succeeded by his son Henry, the 4th marquess (1816-1866). The latter, who was member of See also:parliament for See also:Caine for twenty years and chairman of the See also:Great Western railway, married for his second wife Emily (1819-1895), daughter of the See also:comte de Flahaut de la Billarderie, a See also:lady who became Baroness See also:Nairne in her own right in 1867. By her he had two sons, the 5th marquess and Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice (See also:Baron Fitzmaurice of See also:Leigh).

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