BARON

See also:

• CHICHESTER

CHICHESTER

See also:

• SAMUEL

SAMUEL

See also:

• FORTESCUE, SIR JOHN (c. 1394-c. 1476)
• FORTESCUE, SIR JOHN (c. 1531-1607)

FORTESCUE

See also:

• CARLINGFORD
• BARON CHICHESTER SAMUEL FORTESCUE CARLINGFORD (1823–1898)

CARLINGFORD (1823–1898)  , British statesman, son of Chichester Fortes-cue (d . 1826),M.P. for Louth in the Irish parliament, was born in January 1823 . He came of an old family settled in Ireland since the days of Sir Faithful Fortescue (1581–1666), whose uncle, Lord Chichester, was lord deputy . The history of the family was written by his elder brother Thomas (1815-1887), who in 1852 was created Baron Clermont . The future Lord Carlingford, then Mr Chichester Fortescue, went to Christ Church, Oxford, where he took a first in classics (1844) and won the chancellor's English essay (1846); and in 1847 he was elected to parliament for Louth as a Liberal . He became a junior lord of the treasury in 1854, and subsequently held minor offices in the Liberal administrations till in 1865 he was made chief secretary for Ireland under Lord Russell, a post which he again occupied under Gladstone in 1868–187o; he then became president of the Board of Trade (1871–1874), and later lord privy seal (1881–1885) and president of the council (1883–1885) . He was raised to the peerage in 1874 . He parted from Gladstone on the question of Irish Home Rule, but in earlier years he was his active supporter on Irish questions . His influence in society was due largely to his wife, Frances (1821–1879), previously the wife of the 7th Earl Waldegrave, whom he married in 1863 . In 1887 his brother, Lord Clermont, died, and Carlingford inherited his peerage; but on his own death without issue on the 3oth of January 1898 both titles became extinct .