Arthur Wrottesley, 3rd Baron Wrottesley (17 June 1824 – 28 December 1910), was a British

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 peer and Liberal

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 politician.

Biography

Wrottesley was the son of John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley

John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley

John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley FRS FRAS was an English astronomer.Wrottesley was the son of John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley, and his first wife Lady Caroline Bennet, daughter of Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville. He succeeded his father in the barony on March 16, 1841...

, President of the Royal Society

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, and his wife Sophia Elizabeth Giffard, daughter of Thomas Giffard. He took his seat in the House of Lords

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 on his father's death in 1867 and two years later he was appointed a Lord-in-Waiting

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 (government whip

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 in the House of Lords) in the first Liberal administration

Liberal Government 1868-1874

The Conservative government under Benjamin Disraeli had been defeated at the General Election, so in December 1868 the victorious William Gladstone formed his first government. He introduced reforms in the Army , the legal system and the Civil Service, and disestablished the Church of Ireland...

 of William Ewart Gladstone

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. Lord Wrottesley retained this post until the government fell in 1874, and held the same office from 1880 to 1885 in Gladstone's second administration

Liberal Government 1880-1885

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. Apart from his political career he also served as Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire

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 from 1871 to 1887.

Lord Wrottesley married Hon. Augusta Elizabeth Denison, daughter of Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough

Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough

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, in 1861. He died in December 1910, aged 86, and was succeeded in the baronetcy and barony by his eldest son Victor Alexander Wrottesley.