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George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon KG,
GCSI,
CIE,
PC (
24 October 1827 –
9 July 1909) was a
British politician who served in every
Liberal cabinet from
1861 until his death forty-eight years later. He had no career other than politics.
Robinson was born at
10 Downing Street,
London (the
Prime Minister's residence), the second son of the Prime Minister,
Lord Goderich. Although his father had been a
Tory, he was first a
Whig and later a Liberal. He entered the
House of Commons as member for
Hull in
1852, and later sat for
Huddersfield and the
West Riding of
Yorkshire. In
1859 he succeeded his father as
Earl of Ripon and Viscount Goderich, taking his seat in the
House of Lords, and later that year succeeded a cousin in the more senior title of
Earl de Grey.
In
1861 de Grey first took office, and was then a member of every Liberal Cabinet until his death. In
1863, he was made a
Privy Counsellor. He was
Secretary of State for War (
1863–
66) under
Palmerston and
Secretary of State for India in
1866 under
Russell. In
Gladstone's first administration he was
Lord President of the Council (
1868–
73). During this period he acted as chairman of the joint commission for drawing up the
Treaty of Washington with the
United States. For this he was created
Marquess of Ripon. He was also made a
Knight of the Garter in
1869. He was Grand Master Mason from
1870 to
1874, when Lord Ripon converted to
Catholicism. He served as
President of the first day of the 1878
Co-operative Congress.
When Gladstone returned to power in
1880 he appointed Ripon
Viceroy of India, an office he held until
1884. During his time in India, Ripon introduced legislation (the "
Ilbert Bill," named for his secretary
Courtenay Ilbert) that would have granted native Indians more legal rights, including the right of Indian judges to judge Europeans in court. Though progressive in its intent, this legislation was gutted by the British Parliament who didn't want to lose their legal superiority. In Gladstone's
1886 government he was
First Lord of the Admiralty, and in that of
1892–
95 he was
Secretary of State for the Colonies. When the Liberals again returned to power in
1905 he took office, aged 78, as
Lord Privy Seal and
Leader of the House of Lords. He resigned in
1908.
He was Chancellor of the
University of Leeds from
1904 until his death in
1909.
A devout Catholic in his later years, Ripon was generous in educational and charitable works. He was president of the Society of
St Vincent de Paul from
1899 until his death and a great supporter of St. Joseph's Catholic Missionary Society. In
1851 he married his cousin Henrietta Vyner: they'd two children.
Lord Ripon is very much revered in Chennai (formerly Madras), India. The Corporation of Chennai's
Ripon Building was named after Lord Ripon and is a landmark and very much in the daily lingo of Chennai people. A town Riponpet in Shimoga district of Karnataka state in India is named after him.
Marriage
On 8 April 1851, George Robinson (then Viscount Goderich) married his cousin Henrietta Anne Theodosia Vyner (17 April 1833 - 28 February 1907), the daughter of Henry Vyner and his wife Lady Mary Gertrude Robinson, who was a daughter of
Thomas Robinson, 2nd Earl de Grey. Their son Frederick Oliver Robinson, later 2nd Marquess of Ripon, was born on 29 January 1852.
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