Charles Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley
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The Right Honourable The Lord Stuart of Wortley PC |
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"Sheffield". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1886.
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| Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department |
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In office 30 June 1885 – 28 January 1886 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Marquess of Salisbury |
| Preceded by | Henry Fowler |
| Succeeded by | Henry Broadhurst |
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In office 4 August 1886 – 11 August 1892 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Marquess of Salisbury |
| Preceded by | Henry Broadhurst |
| Succeeded by | Herbert Gladstone |
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| Born | 15 September 1851 |
| Died | 24 April 1926 (aged 74) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Beatrice Trollope (d. 1881) |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley PC (15 September 1851 – 24 April 1926), was a British Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1916, shortly before he was raised to the peerage. He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department between 1885–1886 and 1886–1892 in the Conservative administrations headed by Lord Salisbury.
A member of the Stuart family headed by the Marquess of Bute, Stuart-Wortley was the son of James Stuart-Wortley, youngest son of James Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Wharncliffe, son of James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, second son of Prime Minister John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute. His mother was the Hon. Jane Stuart-Wortley (born Lawley). He was educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford and called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1876. He was secretary to the Royal Commission on the Sale of Benefices from 1879 to 1880.
In 1880 Stuart-Wortley was the first Conservative to be elected as a Member of Parliament for Sheffield, and when this constituency was broken up under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, he was elected in the 1885 general election as MP for the new Sheffield Hallam constituency. He served under Lord Salisbury as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department between 1885 and 1886 and again from 1886 to 1892. In 1896 he was admitted to the Privy Council. Stuart-Wortley resigned from the House of Commons on 16 December 1916 and in 1917 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Stuart of Wortley, of the City of Sheffield.
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