Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, 1878. Artist: Lock & Whitfield

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Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, 1878. Artist: Lock & Whitfield

Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, 1878. After serving as a member of the Government of Victoria, in Australia, Childers returned to Britain and, in 1860, was elected as MP for Pontefract, representing the Liberal Party. He held various government posts, including First Lord of the Admiralty between 1868 and 1871. He became Secretary for War in 1880, then succeeded Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1882. He supported Gladstones policy of Irish Home Rule, and served as Home Secretary in the short-lived Liberal government of 1886, by which time he was MP for Edinburgh South, having lost Pontefract in 1885. Childers retired from active politics at the General Election of 1892. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (Conducted by G. C. Whitfield.) (London, 1876-1883)

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Admiralty Chancellor Fellow Of The Royal Society First Lord Of The Admiralty Home Secretary Liberal Liberal Party Lock Lock Whitfield Member Of Parliament Royal Society Whitfield

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