PALMERS TON

Henry John Temple , 3 Viscount (1 son of Henry Temple, 2 viscount Palmers ton 1739–1802). b. Park st. Westminster 20 Oct. 1784, bapt. St. Margaret, Westminster 23 Nov.; educ. Eton, Edinb. univ. and St. John’s coll. Camb. M.A. 1806; LL.D. 1864; D.C.L. Oxford 1862; succeeded 17 April 1802; contested Cambridge univ. 7 Feb. 1806, Horsham 4 Nov. 1806, and Cambridge again 8 May 1807, when beaten by 2 votes; M.P. Newport, Isle of Wight 1807–11, the patron sir Leonard Holmes required him never to visit the town, not even for the election; M.P. Cambridge univ. 1811–31; M.P. Blet chin gley 1831–2; M.P. South Hants 1832–4; M.P. Tiverton 1835–65; a lord of the admiralty 3 April 1807 to Oct. 1809; made his first speech 3 Feb. 1808; declined chancellorship of the exchequer Oct. 1809; sec. at war 28 Oct. 1809 to 26 May 1828; P.C. 1 Nov. 1809; shot at and slightly wounded at the war office 8 April 1818, by lieut. David Davies, who d. of apoplexy at Bethlehem hospital 30 Dec. 1861 aged 67; sec. for foreign affairs 22 Nov. 1830 to 15 Nov. 1834, 18 April 1835 to 31 Aug. 1841, and 3 July 1846 to 22 Dec. 1851; G.C.B. 6 June 1832; home sec. 28 Dec. 1852 to 30 Jany. 1855; first lord of the treasury and prime minister 20 Feb. 1855 to 20 Feb. 1858, and 30 June 1859 to 18 Oct. 1865; K.G. 12 July 1856, the first peer of Ireland upon whom it was ever conferred; lord warden of the Cinque ports 27 March 1861; lord rector of univ. of Glasgow 1862; master of the Trinity house 1862–6; author of Selections from private journals of tours in France (1871). d. Brocket hall, Herts. 18 Oct. 1865. bur. north transept of Westminster abbey 27 Oct., will proved 22 Dec. 1865 under £120,000. Bulwer’s Life of viscount Palmers ton to 1847 , 3 vols. (1870) portrait ; Ashley’s Life of viscount Palmers ton , 2 vols. (1879) portrait ; W. H. Bid well’s Imperial Courts of France, England, etc. , New York (1863) pp. 137–44; The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages , 1st series (1859) portrait ; Justin McCarthy’s A history of our own times ii 121–63 and 259–94 (1879); Rice’s History of the British turf i 319–22 (1879); Opinions and policy of viscount Palmers ton, with a memoir by George Henry Francis (1852); The two great statesmen, a Plutarchian parallel between Earl Ru ell and Viscount Palmers ton (1862); Materials for the true history of Lord Palmers ton (1866); Memoir by Edward Walford (1865); Lord Palmers ton, a biography by John McGildrist (1865); Life and times of Lord Palmers ton by J. Ewing Ritchie (1867); Saunders’s Portraits of reformers (1840) 163 portrait ; Orators of the age by G. H. Francis (1847) 124–41; Illust. news of the world i (1858) portrait ; D. D. Maddyn’s Chiefs of parties (1859) 154–84; H. Martin eau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed. (1876) 143–53; G. H. Jenning’s Anecdotal history of British parliament (1880) 268–78; Baily’s mag. ii 229–35 (1861) portrait ; The betrayal of England by Wm. Coning ham ; The British cabinet in 1853 pp. 70–113; I.L.N. i 309 (1842) portrait , xvi 457 (1850) portrait ; Representative statesmen by A. C. Ewald ii 294–355 (1879); St. Stephens . By Mask (1839) 164–72; Malmesbury’s Memoirs , 2 vols. (1884) pa im ; Sporting Review liv 317–20 (1865); Sporting Times 9 May 1885 p. 2; W. Day’s Rem in is censes , 2 ed. (1886) 210–7; Illust. Times 12 Nov. 1864 pp. 312–3, double page portrait ; P. M. Thornton’s Foreign Secretaries ii 307–36 (1881). Note. —Lord Palmers ton was dismi ed from the office of foreign sec. on 17 Dec. 1851 for recognising Louis Napoleon as president of the French republic, without first communicating with the queen on the subject. Ashley’s Life ii 193–228. He had race horses in training from 1815. He first raced at Winchester in 1816, with Luz borough he won small races in 1824, with Iliona he won the queen’s plate at Guild ford in 1840 and the Cesarewitch in 1841, with Buckthorn the Ascot stakes in 1853. His horse Maid stone was a favourite for the Derby in 1860. A member of the Jockey club 1845, he frequently rode from London to the Derby race at Epsom, and in 1864 trotted from London to Harrow to hear the speeches, twelve miles in one hour. At his funeral in Westminster Abbey the Rev. H. Sullivan threw into the grave several diamond and gold rings, as ‘a precious offering to the dead.’ Times 28 Oct. 1865 p. 9.