Men-at-the-Bar/Cardwell, Viscount (Edward Cardwell)

by Joseph Foster

Cardwell, Viscount (Edward Cardwell), so created 6 March, 1874, P.C., D.C.L. 1863, M.A., Balliol Coll., Oxon (double first 1835), 1838, secretary to treasury 1845-6, president Board of Trade 1852-5, chief secretary Ireland 1859-61, chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 1861-4, M.P. Clitheroe 1842-7, Liverpool 1847-52, Oxford city 1853-74, secretary of state colonies 1864-6, secretary at war 1868-74, member of Senate London Univ., a student of the Inner Temple 19 Nov., 1833 (then aged 20), called to the bar 16 Nov., 1838, bencher 28 April, 1868 (eldest son of John Cardwell, Esq., late of Liverpool, dec.); born 24 July, 1813; married 14 Aug., 1838, Anne, dau. of late Charles Stuart Parker, Esq., of Fairlie, Ayrshire (see Foster's Peerage).

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