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

See W . S . C111de-Pemberton, The

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Life of Lord Norton (1909) .

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