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See also:LINGEN, See also:RALPH See also:ROBERT See also:WHEELER LINGEN, See also:BARON (1819-1905) , See also:English See also:civil servant, was See also:born in See also:February 1819 at See also:Birmingham, where his See also:father, who came of an old See also:Hertfordshire See also:family, with Royalist traditions, was in business. He became a See also:scholar of Trinity See also:College, See also:Oxford, in 1837; won the See also:Ireland (1838) and See also:Hertford (1839) scholarships; and after taking a first-class in Literae Humaniores (1840), was elected a See also:fellow of Balliol (1841). He subsequently won the See also:Chancellor's Latin See also:Essay (1843) and the See also:Eldon See also:Law scholarship (1846). After taking his degree in 1840, he became a student of See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn, and was called to the See also:bar in 1847; but instead of practising as a See also:barrister, he accepted an See also:appointment in the See also:Education See also:Office, and after a See also:short See also:period was chosen in 1849 to succeed See also:Sir J. See also:Kay See also:Shuttle-See also:worth as its secretary or See also:chief permanent See also:official. He retained this position till 1869. The Education Office of that See also:day had to administer a somewhat chaotic See also:system of See also:government grants to See also:local See also:schools, and Lingen was conspicuous for his fearless discrimination and rigid See also:economy, qualities which characterized his whole career. When Robert See also:Lowe (See also:Lord See also:Sherbrooke) became, as See also:vice-See also:president of the See also:council, his See also:parliamentary chief, Lingen worked congenially with him in producing the Revised See also:Code of 1862 which incorporated " See also:payment by results "; but the education See also:department encountered adverse See also:criticism, and in 1864 the See also:vote of censure in See also:parliament which caused Lowe's resignation, founded (but erroneously) on an alleged " editing " of the school inspectors' reports, was inspired by a certain antagonism to Lingen's as well as to Lowe's methods. Shortly before the introduction of See also:Forster's Education See also:Act of 187o, he was transferred to the See also:post of permanent secretary of the See also:treasury. In this office, which he held till 1885, he proved a most efficient See also:guardian of the public See also:purse, and he was a See also:tower of strength to successive chancellors of the See also:exchequer. It used to be said that the best recommendation for a secretary of the treasury was to be able to say " No " so disagreeably that nobody would See also:court a repetition. Lingen was at all events a most successful resister of importunate claims, and his undoubted talents as a financier were most prominently displayed in the direction of See also:parsimony. In 1885 he retired. He had been made a C.B. in 1869 and a K.C.B. in 1878, and on his retirement he was created Baron Lingen. In 1889 he was made one of the first aldermen of the new See also:London See also:County Council, but he resigned in 1892. He died on the 22nd of See also:July 1905. He had married in 1852, but See also:left no issue. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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