The Viscount Wolverhampton | |
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Secretary of State for India | |
In office 10 March 1894 – 21 June 1895 | |
Monarch | Victoria |
Prime Minister | The Earl of Rosebery |
Preceded by | The Earl of Kimberley |
Succeeded by | Lord George Hamilton |
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | |
In office 10 December 1905 – 13 October 1908 | |
Monarch | Edward VII |
Prime Minister | Henry Campbell-Bannerman H. H. Asquith |
Preceded by | Sir William Walrond, Bt |
Succeeded by | The Lord Fitzmaurice |
Lord President of the Council | |
In office 13 October 1908 – 16 June 1910 | |
Monarchs | Edward VII George V |
Prime Minister | H. H. Asquith |
Preceded by | The Lord Tweedmouth |
Succeeded by | The Lord Beauchamp |
Personal details | |
Born | Sunderland, County Durham. England | 16 May 1830
Died | 25 February 1911 Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England | (aged 80)
Political party | Liberal |
Spouse | Ellen Thorneycroft |
Children | Ellen, Edith, and Henry |
Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton, GCSI, PC (16 May 1830 – 25 February 1911) was a British solicitor and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1908 when he was raised to the peerage. A member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, he was the first solicitor and the first Methodist to enter the Cabinet or to be raised to the peerage.[1]