Hugh Culling Eardley Childers ; June 25, 1827 , London - January 29, 1896 ) - British politician.
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After graduating from Cambridge University in 1850 he went to Australia, where he became a member of the government of the Victoria colony, but in 1857 he returned to England as a representative of the colony.
In 1860 he was elected to parliament, becoming a member of the Liberal Party, from Pontefract (retained his deputy until 1885). In 1864 he became the civil lord of the Admiralty, in 1865 - the financial secretary of the treasury.
Childers consistently held several significant posts in various offices of Gladstone. He was a naval minister from 1868 to 1871, initiating a "cost-cutting policy" in this position. Health problems forced him to resign from this post in 1871, but the following year he returned to work in the government as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
From 1880 to 1882 he was Minister of War, but held this position reluctantly; during his tenure, he had to be responsible for the reforms that were carried out in the Ministry of War in the context of austerity, which was then part of the policy of the Liberal Party. During his leadership of the ministry there was an Egyptian war in which Childers acted with great energy, as well as the First Boer War , in which he and his colleagues showed less success.
From 1882 to 1885, he was Minister of Finance, and the debts for beer and alcohol in his budget over the past year caused the fall of the government.
Defeated in the Pontefract parliamentary elections, he returned as an independent Home Ruler (one of several liberals who adopted this policy before Gladstone changed his mind) in 1886 from South Edinburgh and became Minister of the Interior in the cabinet in 1886 (he was appointed deputy chairman Broadhurst [3] ). When the first bill on homrul was introduced, he privately sent an objection to his financial points, and the rejection of the bill was mainly due to his threat of resignation.
He resigned from parliamentary work in 1892 and died four years later; his last job was to compile a report from the Royal Commission on Irish Finance, which he chaired.
According to estimates from the beginning of the 20th century, Childers was a capable and hardworking administrator of the "old Liberal School" and made every effort possible under the current political conditions to improve the management of the army and navy while he headed the military and naval ministry. He had the greatest penchant for finance, but not a single significant reform in this area was associated with his name. His most ambitious plan was an attempt to reform the consoles in 1884, but the idea ended in failure, although it became the basis for the subsequent reform in 1888.
He was buried at the Brompton Cemetery in London.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Broadgerst, Henry // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- This article (section) contains text taken (translated) from the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica , which went into the public domain .