Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne

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Hereditary Peerage
Preceded byThe 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne
Succeeded byThe 4th Marquess of Lansdowne
Member of Parliament
for Cambridge University
In office
15 December 1806 – 27 April 1807
Preceded byWilliam Pitt the Younger
Succeeded byVicary Gibbs
Member of Parliament
for Calne
In office
31 August 1802 – 24 October 1806
Preceded bySir Francis Baring, Bt
Succeeded byOsborne Markham
Personal details
Born(1780-07-02)2 July 1780
Lady Louisa FitzPatrick
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
Trinity College, Cambridge

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne,

PC, FRS (2 July 1780 – 31 January 1863), known as Lord Henry Petty from 1784 to 1809, was a British statesman. In a ministerial career spanning nearly half a century, he notably served as Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer and was three times Lord President of the Council
.

Background and education

Lansdowne was the son of Prime Minister

Political career

He entered the

Secretary of State for the Home Department from July of that year until January 1828.[1]

He was

Queen Victoria on matters of moment, and his long official experience made his counsel invaluable to his party.[1]
In Kenmare, he donated the site of the Holy Cross Church to the town. In 1864, Father John O'Sullivan (1806–1874) built the church on that site.

Other public appointments

Lansdowne chaired the inaugural meeting of the London Statistical Society, and was its first president (1834–1836). He later served a second term (1842–1844). (See The Times 15 and 17 March 1834, and John Bibby (1987) HOTS: History of Teaching Statistics.)

Family

Photograph of Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, c. 1857

Lord Lansdowne married Lady Louisa Fox-Strangways, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Ilchester, in 1808. They had two sons and one daughter:

  • William Thomas Petty-FitzMaurice, Earl of Kerry
    (30 March 1811 – 21 August 1836)
  • Lady Louisa (1813 – 12 June 1906) married Hon. James Kenneth Howard, son of Thomas Howard, 16th Earl of Suffolk. They had a son Kenneth (married Lady Emily Bury, daughter of the Earl of Charleville) and daughter Winifrede.
  • Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne
    (7 January 1816 – 5 July 1866).

Louisa died in April 1851, aged 65, and Lord Lansdowne in January 1863, aged 82. His eldest son, the Earl of Kerry, had predeceased him and he was succeeded in the marquessate by his only surviving son, Henry. The latter was the father of

Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
, who also became a distinguished statesman.

References

  1. ^ a b c  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lansdowne, William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of s.v. Henry Petty Fitzmaurice". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 184.
  2. ^ "Fitzmaurice, Lord Henry Petty (FTSY798HP)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

External links

In A Great Stream from a Petty-Fountain (1806), James Gillray caricatured the budget of Petty, then the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, as a stream from which his fellow Whigs fed. Petty is the fountainhead at the upper right.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Francis Baring, Bt
Member of Parliament for Calne
18021806
With: Joseph Jekyll
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Preceded by Member of Parliament for Cambridge University
18061807
With: Earl of Euston
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Preceded by Member of Parliament for Camelford
1807–1809
With: Robert Adair
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Political offices
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1806–1807
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Home Secretary

1827–1828
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1830–1834
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The Earl of Rosslyn
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The Earl of Rosslyn
Lord President of the Council
1835–1841
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The Lord Wharncliffe
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The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry
Lord President of the Council
1846–1852
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1846–1852
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Party political offices
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1842–1855
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Preceded by Leader of the British Whig Party
1842 – 1846 – with Lord John Russell
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Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Marquess of Lansdowne
1809–1863
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Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Earl of Kerry
1818–1863
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Academic offices
Preceded by Rector of the University of Glasgow
1829–1831
Succeeded by
Henry Thomas Cockburn
Honorary titles
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The Earl of Pembroke
Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
1827–1863
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Senior Privy Counsellor

1851–1863
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