CARD WELL

Edward Card well , 1 Viscount ( elder son of John Card well of Liverpool, merchant 1781–1831 ). b. 24 July 1813; ed. at Winchester and Balliol coll. Ox., double first cla 1835, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838, D.C.L. 1863; scholar of his college 1832, fellow 1835; barrister I.T. 16 Nov. 1838, bencher 28 April 1868; M.P. for Clitheroe 1842–7, for Liverpool 1847–52, for city of Oxford 1852–7 and 21 July 1857 to 6 March 1874; joint sec. to Treasury Feb. 1845 to July 1846; pres. of Board of trade 28 Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; P.C. 28 Dec. 1852; chief sec. for Ireland June 1859 to July 1861; P.C. Ireland 5 July 1859; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 25 July 1861 to March 1864; sec. of state for Colonies March 1864 to June 1866; sec. of state for war 9 Dec. 1868 to 21 Feb. 1874; reorganised army by abolishing purchase system 20 July 1871 and introducing short service; created Viscount Card well of Ellerbeach 6 March 1874; an ecclesiastical comr. to Nov. 1882; pres. of commi ion on Vivisection 23 June 1875 to March 1876. d. Villa Como, Torquay 15 Feb. 1886. bur. High gate cemetery. St. James’s Mag. Jany. 1870 pp. 527–32, portrait ; I.L.N. iv , 65 (1844), portrait, xlvi , 251 (1865), portrait, liv , 436 (1869), portrait .