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HENRY HARTLEY FOWLER WOLVERHAMPTON

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 781 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY HARTLEY FOWLER WOLVERHAMPTON  , 17m-COUNT (1830- ),
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English statesman, was born at Durham on the 16th of May 183o . He became a prosperous
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solicitor in Wolverhampton, and coming of a Liberal
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nonconformist
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family took a prominent
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part in politics . In 188o he was elected Liberal member of parliament for Wolverhampton, and was re-elected for the east division at successive contests . In 1884-1885 he was under-secretary for the Home Office, and in 1886
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financial secretary to the
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treasury . In Mr Gladstone's 1892-1894
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ministry he was president of the
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local government board, and in Lord Rosebery's
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cabinet, 1894-1895, secretary of state for India . In these and the succeeding years of opposition he was recognized as a sound economist and a sober
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administrator, as well as a universally respected representative of nonconformist views . In
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Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet, 1905-1908, he was chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, and he retained this office in Mr Asquith's ministry, but was transferred to the House of Lords with a viscountcy (
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April 1908) . He retired in 191o . His daughter, Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, who married Mr A . L . Felkin in 1903, became well known as a novelist with her Concerning
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Isabel Carnaby (1898) and other books .

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