IDDESLEIGH

Sir Stafford Henry North cote , 1 Earl of (eld. son of Henry Stafford North cote 1792–1850). b. 23 Portland place, London 27 Oct. 1818; ed. at Eton 1831–6 and at Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842, D.C.L. 1863; barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1847; legal sec. to board of trade 1847; sec. to comrs. of Great exhibition of 1851; succeeded his grandfather as 8 baronet 17 Nov. 1851; C.B. 25 Oct. 1851, G.C.B. 20 April 1880; M.P. Dudley 1855–7, M.P. Stamford 1858–66, M.P. North Devon 1866–85; president of board of trade 1 July 1866 to March 1867; P.C. 6 July 1866; sec. of state for India 2 March 1867 to Dec. 1868; governor of Hudson Bay co. 5 Jany. 1869; chancellor of the exchequer 21 Feb. 1874 to 28 April 1880; elected lord rector of Edin. univ. 3 Nov. 1883, installed 30 Jany. 1884; cr. earl of Iddesleigh and viscount St. Cyres of Newton St. Cyres, co. Devon 3 July 1885; first lord of the treasury 24 June 1885 to 6 Feb. 1886; author of A short review of the history of the navigation laws. By A Barrister 1849; A statement connected with the elections of W. E. Gladstone for the university of Oxford 1847, 1852 and 1853; Twenty five years of financial policy 1862; reprinted The triumphs of Petrarch. Roxburgh Club 1887. d. in Lord Salisbury’s ante-room, Downing st. London 12 Jany. 1887. Lang’s Life, letters and diaries of Sir S. North cote, new ed. (1891), 2 portraits ; D. Anderson’s Scenes in the house of commons (1884) 24–28 ; C. Brown’s Life of Beacons field, i 98 (1882), portrait ; W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores (1884) 19, 21–3, portrait . Note. —He is drawn by Anthony Trollope in his novel The Three Clerks under the name of Sir Warwick West End.