Hugh Childers

From British Offices and Honours

Hugh Culling Eardley Childers

• Born: 25 June 1827
• Died: 29 January 1896

Contents 1 Education 2 Offices 3 Privy Council 4 Parliamentary Seats

[edit] Education

• Cheam School
• Wadham College, Oxford
• Trinity College, Cambridge

[edit] Offices

• Civil Lord of the Admiralty, 1864-1865
• Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1865-1866
• First Lord of the Admiralty, 1868-1871
• Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1872-1873
• Secretary of State for War, 1880-1882
• Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1882-1885
• Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1886

[edit] Privy Council

• Privy Councillor, 1868

[edit] Parliamentary Seats

• Member of Parliament for Pontefract, 1860-1885
• Member of Parliament for South Edinburgh, 1886-1892

Preceded by: Richard Cross

Home Secretary 1886

Succeeded by: Henry Matthews