one of the Commissioners for executing the office of Treasurer of the Exchequer of Great Britain and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, March 6, 1854; was made a K.G. February 7, 1855.

CLARENDON (GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK
VILLERS),

EARL OF, K. G., G. C. B.,

was attached to the Embassy at St. Petersburg from 1820 till 1823; was First Commissioner of Excise, from the end of 1823 till September, 1833; in 1827 he went to Ireland as Commissioner to make arrangements for an union of the English and Irish Boards, and remained there till 1829; for a few months in 1831 he was employed in France as Commercial Commissioner to arrange the basis of a treaty of Commerce with that country; was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Madrid from September 5, 1833, till October 18, 1839; was made a G. C. B. October 20, 1837; succeeded as 4th Earl, December 22, 1838, was made a Privy Councillor January 3, 1840; was Lord Privy Seal from January 15, 1840, till September 3, 1841; was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pro tempore, from October 31, 1840, till June 23, 1841; was President of the Board of Trade from July 6, 1846, till July 22, 1847; was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from May 26, 1847, till February 28, 1852; was made a K.G. March 23, 1849; was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, February 21, 1853; accompanied Her Majesty to Paris in August, 1855; was Plenipotentiary at the Conferences of Paris, and signed the Treaty of Peace of March 30, 1856; he resigned office, February 26, 1858.

PALMERSTON (HENRY JOHN TEMPLE),

VISCOUNT, K. G., G. C.B., M. P.,

succeeded as 3rd. Viscount, April 17, 1802; was appointed Secretary of War, October 27, 1809, which office he held

till May 31, 1828; was made a Privy Councillor, November 1, 1809; upon the formation of a Cabinet by the late Earl Grey was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, November 22, 1830; he held the Seals of that office till November 21, 1834, when he was succeeded by the late Duke of Wellington; was again appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, April 18, 1835, under the late Viscount Melbourne's Administration; his Lordship resigned with the rest of the Cabinet in September, 1841; upon the formation of Lord John Russell's Cabinet, Lord Palmerston was for the third time appointed to his former post, July 6, 1846; and in December, 1851, he resigned; upon the formation of Lord Aberdeen's Cabinet, in December, 1852, Lord Palmerston was appointed Secretary of State for the Home Department; was appointed First Lord of the Treasury, February 8, 1855, and one of a Committee of Council to superintend the application of any sums of money voted by Parliament for the purpose of promoting Public Education, February 28, 1855; was M.P. for the University of Cambridge from 1806 till 1831; for Bletchingley from 1831 till 1832; for South Hants from 1832 to December 1834; and has sat for Tiverton since June 1835; was made a K.G., July 12, 1856. He resigned office, February 19, 1858. Was appointed July 9, 1858, one of Her Majesty's Commissioners for the purpose of inquiring into the establishment, organization, government and direction of the Militia Force of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; was appointed First Lord of the Treasury, June 24, 1859; was appointed, July 6, 1859, one of the Committee of Council to superintend the application of any sums of money voted by parliament for the purpose of promoting Public Education.

STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE (STRATFORD
CANNING),

VISCOUNT, G. C. B.,

was appointed Précis Writer in the Foreign Office by Mr. Secretary Canning, July 5, 1807; accompanied Mr.

Merry to Copenhagen as Secretary (conjointly with the late Earl of Mornington) to his Special Mission, in October, 1807; accompanied Mr. (afterwards Sir Robert) Adair to the Dardanelles, as Secretary to his Special Mission, in June, 1808, for the purpose of negotiating terms of peace between England and the Porte; was appointed Secretary of Embassy at Constantinople, April 15, 1809; on the recall of Mr. Adair, was Minister Plenipotentiary at Constantinople in 1811 and 1812; attended by order at the Congress of Vienna in 1814 and 1815, when Sir Robert Liston arrived as Ambassador; was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Switzerland, June 28, 1814; attended at the Congress of Vienna, and assisted at the Committee of Plenipotentiaries for Swiss Affairs, November, 1814; to the United States of America, July 20, 1820; was made a Privy Councillor, July 20, 1820; was appointed Plenipotentiary in London for negotiating with the United States of America, November 29, 1823, concerning all the questions in dispute, including that of the North-west Boundary, but which was not eventually ratified; was sent on a Special Mission to Russia, November 9, 1824, respecting Greece and the Boundary on the North-west American Coast, and was charged with communications to the Court of Vienna; was appointed Ambassador at Constantinople, October 10, 1825; was sent, in July, 1828, while in that capacity, to Greece, for the establishment of its independence in concert with the Representatives of France and Russia.

Resigned his Embassy, and received a Pension, January 28, 1830; was made a G.C.B. 1829; was dispatched on a Special Embassy to Constantinople for enlarging the Boundaries of Greece, October 30, 1831; was appointed Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of all the Russias, October 30, 1832; was sent on a Special Embassy to Spain and Portugal, December 30, 1832; was again appointed Ambassador at Constantinople, October 16, 1841, with a Mission to Athens; on his return from leave of absence in England, was accredited, in 1847 and

1848, on Special Missions to Switzerland, Prussia, Austria, and Greece, communicating also under instructions with the Courts of Belgium, Hanover, Saxony, and Bavaria. He returned again to England in June, 1852, and in April, 1853, resumed his functions at Constantinople, after communicating by instruction with the Courts of Paris and Vienna. Sat in six Parliaments, for Stockbridge, Old Sarum, and Lynn Regis, successively from 1833 to 1842; and was raised to the Peerage, April 24, 1852, by the title of Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe. Signed and concluded six Conventions or Treaties with various States, and assisted, by single mediation, in bringing about peace between. Turkey and Russia in 1812; by joint intervention in settling the Federal Compact of the Swiss Cantons; by Conference and Protocol in establishing the foundations of the Greek Monarchy; was offered, but declined, a Russian Order in 1814; accepted, by permission, from the Sultan Mahmoud, in 1832, his Nishan, with the Imperial Portrait in Brilliants; was offered, and declined by authority, the Greek Order of the Saviour, in 1842. Resigned his Embassy, in May, 1858, and retired on his pension. Was sent on a Special Mission to take leave of the Sultan, in September, 1858.

RUSSELL (LORD JOHN, NOW EARL)

RT. HON., M.P.,

was M.P. for Tavistock, from 1813 till March, 1817, and also from July, 1818, till March, 1819; for Huntingdonshire, from 1820 till 1826; and for Bandon Budje, from January, 1827, till 1830. Was made a Privy Councillor, November 22, 1830. Was Paymaster of the Forces from December, 1832, when he was returned for South Devon, which County he represented till May, 1835. Was appointed one of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, August 15, 1836. Was Secretary of State for the Home Department from April 18, 1835, till August 30, 1839. Was M.P. for Stroud from May 21, 1835, till June, 1841. Was Secretary of State for the Colonies from August 30, 1839,

to September 3, 1841. Has been M.P. for the City of London since July 1841. Was first Lord of the Treasury from July 6, 1846, till February 26, 1852. Was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from December 28, 1852, till February 20, 1853, when he retained a seat in the Cabinet, but held no appointment. Was Lord President of the Council from June 12, 1854, till February 7, 1855. Was appointed to be the unpaid Charity Commissioner for England and Wales, July 8th, 1854. Was sent on a Special Mission to Vienna, February 11, 1855. Was appointed one of a Committee of Council to superintend the application of any sums of money voted by Parliament for the purpose of promoting Public Education, February 28th, 1855. Was Secretary of State for the Colonies from March to July, 1855. Was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, June 18, 1859; and one of the Committe of Council to superintend the application of any sums of money voted by Parliament for the purpose of promoting Public Education, July 6, 1859. Was in attendance upon Her Majesty when she proceeded to Coburg, in September and October, 1860.

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