Charles Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley
Victoria | |
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| Prime Minister | The Marquess of Salisbury |
| Preceded by | Henry Broadhurst |
| Succeeded by | Herbert Gladstone |
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| Born | 15 September 1851 |
| Died | 24 April 1926 (aged 74) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Beatrice Trollope (d. 1881)
Alice Sophia Caroline Millais |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department between 1885–1886 and 1886–1892 in the Conservative administrations headed by Lord Salisbury.
Background and education
A member of the Stuart family headed by the
James Stuart-Wortley, youngest son of James Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Wharncliffe, son of James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, second son of Prime Minister John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute. His mother was the Hon. Jane Stuart-Wortley (born Lawley).[1] He was educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford and called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1876. He was secretary to the Royal Commission on the Sale of Benefices from 1879 to 1880.[2]
Political career
In 1880 Stuart-Wortley was the first
House of Commons on 16 December 1916[6] and in 1917 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Stuart of Wortley, of the City of Sheffield.[7]
Personal life
Lord Stuart of Wortley married Beatrice, daughter of
Frank Schuster, Lady Charles Beresford and the composer Edward Elgar to whom she was known as Alice and 'Windflower'.[9]
He died in April 1926, aged 74, when the barony became extinct.[8]
Honours
In October 1920, the Great Central Railway gave the name Lord Stuart of Wortley to one of their newly built 4-6-0 express passenger locomotives, no. 1168 of class 9P (LNER class B3). It carried the name until withdrawal in September 1946.[10][11]
References
- ^ Jane Stuart Wortley, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Retrieved 31 January 2016
- ^ a b Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
- ^ "leighrayment.com House of Commons: Shankill to Southampton". Archived from the original on 9 October 2018. Retrieved 18 November 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "leighrayment.com House of Commons: Hackney to Harwich". Archived from the original on 20 December 2009. Retrieved 18 November 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ leighrayment.com Privy Counsellors 1836–1914[usurped]
- ^ Department of Information Services (9 June 2009). "Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850" (PDF). House of Commons Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2011. Retrieved 30 November 2009.
- ^ "No. 29913". The London Gazette. 23 January 1917. p. 842.
- ^ a b thepeerage.com Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley, 1st and last Baron Stuart of Wortley, retrieved 21 September 2014
- ISBN 978-1-84383-295-9.
known to her family as Carrie ... She and her husband shared a passion for music, playing the Grieg and Schumann concertos on the two grand pianos at their home ... circle of friends, among them Claude Phillips the art critic, Frank Schuster, and Lady Charles Beresford. Known to Elgar first as Alice, then as Windflower, she became his creative muse.
- OCLC 655688865.
- ^ Boddy, M.G.; Fry, E.V.; Hennigan, W.; Proud, P.; Yeadon, W.B. (July 1963). Fry, E.V. (ed.). Locomotives of the L.N.E.R., part 1: Preliminary Survey. Potters Bar: RCTS. pp. 21, 23.
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