Baron Eversley
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The Right Honourable The Lord Eversley DL PC |
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| First Commissioner of Works | |
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In office 29 November 1881 – 13 February 1885 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Preceded by | William Patrick Adam |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Rosebery |
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In office 18 August 1892 – 10 March 1894 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Preceded by | Hon. David Plunket |
| Succeeded by | Herbert Gladstone |
| Postmaster General | |
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In office 7 November 1884 – 9 June 1885 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Preceded by | Henry Fawcett |
| Succeeded by | Lord John Manners |
| President of the Local Government Board | |
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In office 1894 – 21 June 1895 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Earl of Rosebery |
| Preceded by | Henry Fowler |
| Succeeded by | Henry Chaplin |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
12 June 1831 Battersea |
| Died | 19 April 1928 (aged 96) Kings Worthy, Hampshire |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal Party |
| Spouse(s) | Lady Constance Reynolds-Moreton (d. 1929) |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
George John Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley PC, DL (12 June 1831 – 19 April 1928) was a British Liberal Party politician. In a ministerial career that spanned thirty years, he was twice First Commissioner of Works and also served as Postmaster General and President of the Local Government Board.
Eversley was the only son of Sir John Shaw-Lefevre and Rachel Emily, daughter of Ichabod Wright. He was born in Battersea, and was the nephew of Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley, Speaker of the House of Commons. He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1855.
Eversley stood unsuccessfully as the Liberal candidate for Winchester in 1859 but was successfully returned for Reading in 1863, a seat he held until 1885. He carried a vote in House of Commons for arbitration of the Alabama Claims in 1868. He held cabinet rank under Whig Lord Russell as Civil Lord of the Admiralty in 1866, a post he held until the government fell the same year, and later served under William Ewart Gladstone as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1868 to 1871, as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from January to March 1871, as Parliamentary Secretary of the Admiralty from 1871 to 1874 and again in 1880, after Christmas was sworn of the Privy Council. A successful barrister-at-law, he was appointed a Bencher of the Inner Temple in 1882.
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