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1ST

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BARON
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CHARLES
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THOMSON
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RITCHIE RITCHIE (1838-1906)  ,
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English politician, was
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born at
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Dundee, and educated at the
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City of
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London school . He went into business, and in 1874 was returned to
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parliament as Conservative member for the
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Tower Hamlets . In 1885 he was made secretary to the
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Admiralty, and from 1886 to 1892
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president of the
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Local
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Government
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Board, in
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Lord
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Salisbury's
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administration, sitting as member for St
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George's in the
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East . He was. responsible for the Local Government
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Act of 1888, instituting the
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county
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councils; and a large
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section of the Conservative party always owed him a grudge for having originated the London County
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Council . In Lord Salisbury's later ministries, as member for
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Croydon, he was president of the Board of
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Trade (1895-1900), and
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home secretary (1895-1900); and when
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Sir
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Michael
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Hicks-
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Beach retired in 1902, he became
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chancellor of the
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exchequer in Mr
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Balfour's
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cabinet . Though in his earlier years he had been a "
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fair-trader," he was strongly opposed to Mr
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Chamberlain's
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movement for a pre-.ferential
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tariff (see the articles on BALFOUR, A . J., and CHAMBER-LAIN, J.), and he resigned
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office in
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September 1903 . In
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December 1905 he was created a peer, but he was in
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ill-
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health, and he died at
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Biarritz on the 9th of
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January 1906 .

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