Stafford Henry (Stafford) Northcote, 1st earl of Iddesleigh
1818–87
Politician. BA, Oxford, 1839. Secretary to William Ewart Gladstone from 1842 until circa 1850. Legal assistant at the Board of Trade, 1845–50. Called to the bar, 1847. Secretary of the Great Exhibition, 1850. MP for Dudley, 1855–7; Stamford, 1858–66; North Devonshire, 1866–85. Assisted Benjamin Disraeli in financial matters, 1858–81. President of the Board of Trade from 1866. Secretary of state for India, 1867–9. Elected chairman of the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1869. Chancellor of the Exchequer and a lord of the Treasury, 1874–80. First lord of the Treasury, 1885–6. Foreign minister, 1886–7. Created earl of Iddesleigh and Viscount St Cyres, 1885. FRS 1875.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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