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See also:RITCHIE, See also:CHARLES See also:THOMSON RITCHIE, 1ST See also:BARON (1838-1906) , See also:English politician, was See also:born at See also:Dundee, and educated at the See also:City of See also:London school. He went into business, and in 1874 was returned to See also:parliament as Conservative member for the See also:Tower Hamlets. In 1885 he was made secretary to the See also:Admiralty, and from 1886 to 1892 See also:president of the See also:Local See also:Government See also:Board, in See also:Lord See also:Salisbury's See also:administration, sitting as member for St See also:George's in the See also:East. He was. responsible for the Local Government See also:Act of 1888, instituting the See also:county See also:councils; and a large See also:section of the Conservative party always owed him a grudge for having originated the London County See also:Council. In Lord Salisbury's later ministries, as member for See also:Croydon, he was president of the Board of See also:Trade (1895-1900), and See also:home secretary (1895-1900); and when See also:Sir See also:Michael See also:Hicks-See also:Beach retired in 1902, he became See also:chancellor of the See also:exchequer in Mr See also:Balfour's See also:cabinet. Though in his earlier years he had been a " See also:fair-trader," he was strongly opposed to Mr See also:- CHAMBERLAIN (0. Fr. chamberlain, chamberlenc, Mod. Fr. chambellan, from O. H. Ger. Chamarling, Chamarlinc, whence also the Med. Lat. cambellanus, camerlingus, camerlengus; Ital. camerlingo; Span. camerlengo, compounded of 0. H. Ger. Chamara, Kamara [Lat.
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH (1836— )
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE (1828– )
- CHAMBERLAIN, SIR NEVILLE BOWLES (1820-1902)
Chamberlain's See also:movement for a pre-.ferential See also:tariff (see the articles on BALFOUR, A. J., and CHAMBER-LAIN, J.), and he resigned See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in See also:September 1903. In See also:December 1905 he was created a peer, but he was in See also:ill-See also:health, and he died at See also:Biarritz on the 9th of See also:January 1906.
End of Article: RITCHIE, CHARLES THOMSON RITCHIE, 1ST BARON (1838-1906)
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