The Marquess of Crewe | |
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Secretary of State for War | |
In office 25 August 1931 – 5 November 1931 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald |
Preceded by | Thomas Shaw |
Succeeded by | Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham |
His Majesty's Ambassador to France | |
In office 1922–1928 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | Bonar Law Stanley Baldwin |
Preceded by | Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst |
Succeeded by | Sir William Tyrrell |
Leader of the House of Lords | |
In office 14 April 1908 – 10 December 1916 | |
Monarchs | Edward VII George V |
Prime Minister | H. H. Asquith |
Preceded by | George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon |
Succeeded by | George Curzon, 1st Earl Curzon of Kedleston |
Lord President of the Council | |
In office 25 May 1915 – 10 December 1916 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | H. H. Asquith |
Preceded by | William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp |
Succeeded by | George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston |
In office 10 December 1905 – 12 April 1908 | |
Monarch | Edward VII |
Prime Minister | Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman |
Preceded by | Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of Londonderry |
Succeeded by | Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth |
Lord Privy Seal | |
In office 13 February 1912 – 25 May 1915 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | H. H. Asquith |
Preceded by | Charles Wynn-Carington, 1st Earl Carrington |
Succeeded by | George Curzon, 1st Earl Curzon of Kedleston |
In office 9 October 1908 – 23 October 1911 | |
Monarchs | Edward VII George V |
Prime Minister | H. H. Asquith |
Preceded by | George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon |
Succeeded by | Charles Wynn-Carington, 1st Earl Carrington |
President of the Board of Education | |
In office 18 August 1916 – 10 December 1916 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | H. H. Asquith |
Preceded by | Arthur Henderson |
Succeeded by | Herbert Fisher |
Secretary of State for India | |
In office 25 May 1911 – 25 May 1915 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | H. H. Asquith |
Preceded by | John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn |
Succeeded by | Austen Chamberlain |
In office 3 November 1910 – 7 March 1911 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | H. H. Asquith |
Preceded by | John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn |
Succeeded by | John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn |
Secretary of State for the Colonies | |
In office 12 April 1908 – 3 November 1910 | |
Monarchs | Edward VII George V |
Prime Minister | H. H. Asquith |
Preceded by | Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin |
Succeeded by | Lewis Harcourt |
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland | |
In office 18 August 1892 – 29 June 1895 | |
Monarch | Queen Victoria |
Prime Minister | William Ewart Gladstone Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery |
Preceded by | Lawrence Dundas, 3rd Earl of Zetland |
Succeeded by | George Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan |
Lord-in-Waiting Government Whip | |
In office 16 February 1886 – 20 July 1886 | |
Monarch | Queen Victoria |
Prime Minister | William Ewart Gladstone |
Preceded by | William Elphinstone, 15th Lord Elphinstone |
Succeeded by | William Elphinstone, 15th Lord Elphinstone |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 12 August 1885 – 20 June 1945 Hereditary peerage | |
Preceded by | Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton |
Succeeded by | Peerage extinct |
Personal details | |
Born | Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes 12 January 1858 |
Died | 20 June 1945 | (aged 87)
Nationality | British |
Political party | Liberal |
Spouse(s) | (1) Sibyl Graham (d. 1887) (2) Lady Margaret Primrose |
Children | 6, including Cynthia and Mary |
Parent | |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, KG, PC, FSA (12 January 1858 – 20 June 1945), known as The Honourable Robert Milnes from 1863 to 1885, The Lord Houghton from 1885 to 1895 and as The Earl of Crewe from 1895 to 1911, was a British Liberal politician, statesman and writer.