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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 493 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MALMESBURY, See also:JAMES See also:HOWARD See also:HARRIS, 3RD See also:EARL OF (1807-1889) , See also:English statesman, son of the 2nd earl, was See also:born on the 25th of See also:March 1807, and educated at See also:Eton and See also:Oriel See also:College, See also:Oxford. He led a See also:life of travel for several years, making acquaintance with famous See also:people; and in 1841 he had only just been elected to the See also:House of See also:Commons as a Conservative, when his See also:father died and he succeeded to the See also:peerage. His See also:political career, though not one which made any permanent impression on See also:history, attracted a See also:good See also:deal of contemporary See also:attention, partly from his being See also:foreign secretary in 1852 and again in 1858-1859 (he was also See also:lord privy See also:seal in 1866-1868 and in 1894-1876), and partly from his influential position as an active Tory of the old school in the House of Lords at a See also:time when Lord See also:Derby and Mr Disraeli were, in their different ways, moulding the Conservatism of the See also:period. Moreover his See also:long life—he survived till the 17th of May 1889—and the publication of his See also:Memoirs of an Ex-See also:Minister in 1884, contributed to the reputation he enjoyed. These Memoirs, charmingly written, full of See also:anecdote, and containing much interesting material for the history of the time, remain his See also:chief See also:title to remembrance. Lord Malmesbury also edited his grandfather's Diaries and See also:Correspondence (1844), and in 1870 published The First Lord Malmesbury and His See also:Friends: Letters from 1745 to 1820. He was succeeded as 4th earl by his See also:nephew, See also:Edward James (1842-1899), whose son, James Edward (b. 1872) became the 5th earl in 1899.

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