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soon after Lord-Justice of Appeals, which office 

 he held till February, 1868, when he was called 

 into Disraeli's first cabinet as Lord High Chan- 

 cellor, but resigned with his colleages, Decem- 

 ber 2, 1868. In 1867 he was elevated to the 

 peerage as Baron Cairns of Garmoyle, and has 

 since been the ablest debater of his party in 

 the House of Lords. 



Lord President of the Council. Charles 

 Henry Gordon-Lennox, Duke of Richmond, 

 horn February 27, 1818, eldest son of the fifth 

 Duke of Richmond ; educated at Westminster 

 and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating B. A., 

 1839 ; entered the army in the Royal Horse- 

 Guards, 1840 ; became captain in 1844, and 

 was aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington 

 from 1842 till 1852, and to Viscount Hardinge 

 from 1852 till 1854. He represented West 

 Sussex in the Conservative interest from July, 

 1841, till he succeeded his father as sixth Duke 

 of Richmond, in October, 1860. The Duke 

 was president of the Poor Law Board in 1859, 

 and was president of the Board of Trade in 

 Lord Derby's administration, from March, 

 1867, to December, 1868. He is the leader of 

 the Conservative party in the House of Lords. 



Lord Privy Seal. James Howard Harris, 

 Earl of Malmesbury, born in 1807, eldest son 

 of the second Earl of Malmesbury; educated 

 at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford, graduating 

 B. A., 1828 ; member of Parliament for Wilton, 

 June to August, 1841 ; succeeded to the earl- 

 dom, August, 1841 ; Secretary of State for 

 Foreign Affairs, February to December, 1852, 

 and again February, 1858, to June, 1859 ; Lord 

 Privy Seal July 6, 1866, to December 2, 1868. 



Chancellor of the Exchequer. Right Hon. 

 Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, Bart., C. B. ; 

 born 1818, eldest son of H. S. Northcote, Esq. ; 

 educated at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating 

 M. A. in 1842 ; called to the bar of the Inner 

 Temple, London, 1847; member of Parliament 

 since 1855 ; private secretary to Mr. Gladstone 

 when the latter was president of the Board 

 of Trade, and was Financial Secretary to the 

 Treasury from January to June, 1859. He was 

 afterward president of the Board of Trade, in 

 Lord Derby's third administration, in 1866, 

 and became Secretary of State for India, March, 

 1867. Sir Stafford Northcote has been on good 

 terms with both political parties in England, 

 and was one of the commissioners appointed 



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by the Gladstone Government to negotiate the 

 Treaty of Washington, September to October, 

 1871. He takes an active interest in the prog- 

 ress of art and education, and is author of a 

 book entitled " Twenty Years of Financial 

 Policy, 1842-1861," published in 1862. 



Secretary of State for the Home Depart- 

 ment. Right Hon. Richard Assheton Cross, 

 born 1823, son of William Cross, Esq., of Red 

 Sear, near Preston; educated at Rugby, and 

 at Trinity College, Cambridge; called to the 

 Bar of the Inner Temple, 1849 ; M. P. for Pres- 

 ton, 1857 to 1862 ; M. P. for Southwest Lanca- 

 shire, since 1868. 



Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 

 Right Hon. Edward Henry Smith-Stanley, Earl 

 of Derby, born at Knowsley Park, 1826, eldest 

 son of the fourteenth earl ; educated at Eton, 

 and Trinity College, graduating M. A., 1848; 

 traveled in the United States and the East In- 

 dies, 1847-1849; M. P. for Lynn-Regis, 1848- 

 1869; made his first speech in the House in 

 1850, and returned to the East the next season, 

 where he was when appointed Under-Secretary 

 of State for Foreign Affairs in his father's min- 

 istry, February to December, 1852; Lord Pal- 

 merston offered him the post of Colonial Secre- 

 tary in his cabinet in 1855, but he declined it; 



