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Devon from 1866, and was the parliamentary 

 leader of the Conservatives after Disraeli en- 

 tered the House of Lords. He was President 

 of the Board of Trade in 1866 and became In- 

 dian Secretary the following year. During the 

 second ministry of Disraeli he was Chancellor 

 of the Exchequer. He was born in 1818, was 

 educated at Eton and graduated at Balliol Col- 

 lege, Oxford, was called to the bar 

 iu 1847, and filled the offices of Le- 

 gal Adviser to the Board of Trade 

 and Financial Secretary to the Trea- 

 sury. He succeeded to the title of 

 baronet upon the death of his 

 grandfather, the seventh baronet, 

 in 1851. 



Sir Michael Edward Hicks-Beach 

 was born in 1837, was educated at 

 Eton and Christchurch, and suc- 

 ceeded his father in the baronetcy 

 in 1854. He has represented East 

 Gloucestershire in Parliament since 

 1864. He was Secretary of State 

 for the Colonies from 1878 to 1880. 



Sir Hardinge Gifford, who took 

 the title of Lord Halsbury upon 

 succeeding to the Lord Chancellor- 

 ship, is an eminent lawyer. 



Henry Howard Molyneux Her- 

 bert, Earl of Carnarvon, was born 

 ' in London in 1831. He was edu- 

 cated at Eton and graduated at 

 Christchurch as a first-class in 

 classics in 1852. He succeeded his 

 father, the third earl, in 1849. He 

 k was appointed Under-Secretary for 

 the Colonies in 1857, and was Co- 

 lonial Secretary in 1866 and 1867, 

 and from 1874 to 1878. 



Gathorne Gath or ne -Hardy, Vis- 

 count Cranbrook, was born in 1814, 

 was educated at Shrewsbury and 

 Oriel College, Oxford, and was 

 called to the bar in 1840. He en- 

 tered the House of Commons in 1856, and was 

 member for the University of Oxford from 1865 

 until he was made a peer in 1878. He held 

 office under former Conservative ministries as 

 Home Secretary and Secretary for India, 



Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, a 

 younger son of the late Duke of Marlborough, 

 was born in 1849. He was educated at Eton 

 and graduated at Merton College, Oxford. He 

 i has sat in Parliament for Woodstock since 

 1874. He led the independent annex to the 

 Conservative party known as the "fourth 

 party," in which his parliamentary associates 

 were Mr. Gorst, Sir Drummond Wolff, and Mr. 

 '. Balfour. He was one of the most active mem- 

 bers of the Duchess of Marlborough's commit- 

 Itee for the relief of Irish distress. 

 Lord George Francis Hamilton is a son of 

 the Duke of Abercorn, and was born in 1845, 

 and educated at Harrow School. In 1864 he 

 entered the army as an ensign, retiring in 1868. 

 ; From 1874 to 1878 he was Under-Secretary of 

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State for India, and then Vice-President of the 

 Council of Education until 1880. In 1878 he 

 was appointed a Charity Commissioner. 



Col. Frederick Arthur Stanley is the brother 

 and presumptive heir to the Earl of Derby. 

 He was born in 1841, was educated at Eton, 

 received a commission in the Guards, and en 

 tered Parliament in 1865, sitting as member 



SIB KICHAKD ASSHETON CROSS, G. C. B., 



Home Secretary. 



for North Lancashire since 1868. He was Sec- 

 retary for War under Disraeli. 



Sir Richard Assheton Cross occupied the po- 

 sition of Home Secretary during the Beacons- 

 field administration. He was born in 1823, and 

 received his education at Rugby and at Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, became a barrister in 1849, 

 entered Parliament in 1857, and has represent- 

 ed Southwestern Lancashire since 1868. 



Dudley Francis Stuart Ryder, Earl of Har- 

 rowby, was born in Brighton in 1831, was 

 educated at Harrow and Christchurch, and 

 succeeded his father, the second earl, iu 1882. 

 He was elected to Parliament from Lichfield 

 in 1856, and re-entered the House of Commons 

 in 1868, representing Liverpool as Viscount 

 Sandon until he inherited a peerage. From 

 1878 to 1880 he was President of the Board 

 of Trade. 



William Henry Smith was born in London 

 in 1825. He is a partner in a London mercan- 

 tile firm, and has sat in Parliament as one of 



