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BARON HENRY LABOUCHERE TAUNTON (1798–...

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 453 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON HENRY LABOUCHERE TAUNTON (1798–1869)  ,
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English politician, came of a French Huguenot
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family, which, on leaving France, settled in Holland . His
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father, Peter Caesar Labouchere, merchant, was a partner in the wealthy Amsterdam banking
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firm of Hope &
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Company;1 he went to live in England, and married a daughter of
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Sir Francis
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Baring . Henry was his elder son, while a younger son, John, was the father of the later well-known Radical member of parliament and proprietor of Truth, Henry Labouchere (b . 1831) . He was educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford, and entered the House of
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Commons as a Whig in 1826 . From 183o to 1858 he sat for Taunton, Somerset . After filling various minor offices, he became president of the Board of Trade in 1839-41; and in 1846 he was chief secretary for Ireland . In 1847–52 he was again president of the Board of Trade, and from 1855 to 1858 secretary of state for the colonies . In 1859 he was created Baron Taunton, but on his
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death, on the 13th of
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July 1869, the title became
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extinct .

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