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He was the son of a well-to-do gentleman of Stirling, Scotland, and was related on his mother's side to the Earl of Stair. He was educated at Rugby School and Cambridge University, and was called to the Scottish bar in 1832, but then took to politics. He was elected to parliament as a Liberal for Cockermouth in 1836, and represented the constituency till 1852, when he was defeated; in 1853 he was returned for Stroud, and sat there till 1868; and from 1869 till he died he was member for Liskeard.

He was a junior lord of the treasury in Lord MelbourneWilliam Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne ( March 15, 1779- November 24, 1848) was home secretary (1830-1834) and prime minister (1834 and 1835-1841) of Britain, and mentor of Queen Victoria. Born in London to an aristocratic Whig family and educated at Eton a's administration for a few months during 1841, and gained notoriety for attacking Lord John Russell's ecclesiastical policy in 1847Events January 4 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government. January 13 The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California. January 16 John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory. and subsequent years. In 1855Events Births January 5 King Camp Gillette, inventor († 1932) January 21 John Moses Browning, inventor († 1926) January 28 William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the calculator († 1898) March 13 Percival Lowell, astronomer († 19, under Lord Palmerston, he was made Chief Secretary for IrelandThe Chief Secretary was the most important position for determining British policy in Ireland after the Lord Lieutenant, and was frequently a cabinet level position in the 19th and early twentieth centuries. Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle By the, but resigned in 1857. He gradually took up a position as an independent Liberal, and was well known for his attacks on the Church, and his exposures of various "jobs". His name became principally connected with his influence over Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount SherbrookeRobert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke ( December 4, 1811 July 27, 1892), British statesman, was born at Bingham, Nottinghamshire, where his father was the rector. He was educated at Winchester and University College, Oxford, where he took a first class in in 18661866 is a common year starting on Monday. Events January 6 Ottoman troops clash with men of a Maronite leader Karam in St. Doumit in Lebanon Turks are defeated January 12 Royal Aeronautical Society is formed ( London) January 28 800 Maronite troops clash at the time of Gladstone's Reform Bill, to which he and Lowe were hostile; and it was in describing the Lowe-Horsman combination that John Bright spoke of the "Cave of Adullam". Horsman died at Biarritz.

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