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1ST BARON CHARLES BOWYER ADDERLEY NOR...

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 797 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON See also:CHARLES See also:BOWYER ADDERLEY See also:NORTON (1814–1905)  , See also:English politician, eldest son of See also:Charles See also:Clement Adderley (d . 1818), one of an old See also:Staffordshire See also:family, was See also:born on the 2nd of See also:August 1814, and inherited Hams See also:Hall, See also:Warwick-See also:shire and the valuable estates of his See also:great-See also:uncle, Charles See also:Bowyer Adderley, in 1826 . He was educated at See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, and in 1841 he became one of the members of See also:parliament for Staffordshire, retaining his seat until 1878, when he was created See also:Baron See also:Norton . Adderley's See also:official career began in 1858, when he served as See also:president of the See also:board of See also:health and See also:vice-president of the See also:committee of the See also:council on See also:education in See also:Lord See also:Derby's See also:short See also:ministry . Again under Lord Derby he was under-secretary for the colonies from 1866 to 1868, being in See also:charge of the See also:act which called the Dominion of See also:Canada into being, and from 1874 to 1878 he was president of the board of See also:trade . He died on the 28th of 'See also:March 1905 . Norton was a strong churchman and especially interested in education and the colonies . In 1842 he married Julia (182o–1887) daughter of See also:Chandos, 1st Lord See also:Leigh, by whom he had several sons . His eldest son Charles Leigh (b . 1846) became and Baron Norton . Another son, See also:James See also:Granville Adderley (b . 1861), See also:vicar of Saltley, See also:Birmingham, became well known as an See also:advocate of See also:Christian See also:socialism .

See W . S . C111de-Pemberton, The See also:

Life of Lord Norton (1909) .

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