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WOLVERHAMPTON, HENRY HARTLEY FOWLER

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 781 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WOLVERHAMPTON, See also:HENRY See also:HARTLEY See also:FOWLER , 17m-See also:COUNT (1830- ), See also:English statesman, was See also:born at See also:Durham on the 16th of May 183o. He became a prosperous See also:solicitor in Wolverhampton, and coming of a Liberal See also:nonconformist See also:family took a prominent See also:part in politics. In 188o he was elected Liberal member of See also:parliament for Wolverhampton, and was re-elected for the See also:east See also:division at successive contests. In 1884-1885 he was under-secretary for the See also:Home See also:Office, and in 1886 See also:financial secretary to the See also:treasury. In Mr See also:Gladstone's 1892-1894 See also:ministry he was See also:president of the See also:local See also:government See also:board, and in See also:Lord See also:Rosebery's See also:cabinet, 1894-1895, secretary of See also:state for See also:India. In these and the succeeding years of opposition he was recognized as a See also:sound economist and a sober See also:administrator, as well as a universally respected representative of nonconformist views. In See also:Sir Henry See also:Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet, 1905-1908, he was See also:chancellor of the duchy of See also:Lancaster, and he retained this office in Mr See also:Asquith's ministry, but was transferred to the See also:House of Lords with a viscountcy (See also:April 1908). He retired in 191o. His daughter, Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, who married Mr A. L. Felkin in 1903, became well known as a novelist with her Concerning See also:Isabel Carnaby (1898) and other books.

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