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NORMANBY, See also:CONSTANTINE See also:HENRY PHIPPS, 1ST See also:MARQUESS OF (1797–1863) , See also:British statesman and author, son of Henry, 1st See also:earl of See also:Mulgrave (1755–1831), was See also:born on the 15th of May 1797. The 1st earl (who was created See also:baron in 1794 and earl in 1812), was a distinguished soldier, and See also:Pitt's See also:chief military adviser; and he held the offices of See also:chancellor of the duchy of See also:Lancaster (1804), secretary for See also:foreign affairs (18o5), first See also:lord of the See also:admiralty (1807–1810), and See also:master of the See also:ordnance (1810–1818). In 1792 he inherited the earlier Irish See also:barony of Mulgrave—created in 1767 for his See also:father, Constantine (1722–1775) See also:grandson of See also:Sir Constantine Phipps (1656–1723), the lord chancellor of See also:Ireland—from his See also:elder See also:brother Constantine (1744–1792), a distinguished See also:naval See also:captain. His son, the future marquess, passed through See also:Harrow and Trinity See also:College, See also:Cam-See also:bridge, and sat for the See also:family See also:borough of See also:Scarborough as soon as he attained his See also:majority. But, speaking in favour of See also:Catholic emancipation, and dissenting in other points from the family politics, he resigned his seat, and went to live in See also:Italy for some two years. Returning in 1822, he was elected for Higham See also:Ferrers, and made a considerable reputation by See also:political See also:pamphlets and by his speeches in the See also:house. He was returned for See also:Malton at the See also:general See also:election of 1826, becoming a supporter of See also:Canning. He was already known as a writer of romantic tales, The See also:English in Italy (1825); in the same See also:year he made his See also:appearance as a novelist with See also:Matilda, and in r828 ho produced another novel, Yes and No. Succeeding his father as earl of Mulgrave in 1831, he was sent out as See also:governor of See also:Jamaica, and was afterwards appointed lord-See also:lieutenant of Ireland (1835–1839). He was created marquess of Normanby in 1838, and held successively the offices of colonial secretary and See also:home secretary in the last years of Lord See also:Melbourne's See also:ministry. From 1846 to 1852 he was See also:ambassador at See also:Paris, and from 1854 to 1858 See also:minister at See also:Florence. The publication in 1857 of a See also:journal kept in Paris during the stormy times of 1848 (A Year of Revolution), brought him into violent controversy with See also:Louis See also:Blanc, and he came into conflict with Lord See also:Palmerston and Mr See also:Gladstone, after his retirement from the public service, on questions of See also:French and See also:Italian policy.

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London on the 28th of See also:July 1863. He had married in 1818 the daughter of Lord Ravensworth, and was succeeded as 2nd marquess by his son See also:George (1819–1890), a liberal politican, who became governor of See also:Queensland (1871–1874), New See also:Zealand (1894–1879), and See also:Victoria (1879–1884).

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