Edmond Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice
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The Right Honourable The Lord Fitzmaurice PC |
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"He does not under-estimate his own ability". Lord Fitzmaurice as depicted by "Spy" (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, June 1906.
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| Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | |
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In office 13 October 1908 – 25 June 1909 |
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| Monarch | Edward VII |
| Prime Minister | H. H. Asquith |
| Preceded by | The Viscount Wolverhampton |
| Succeeded by | Herbert Samuel |
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| Born | 19 June 1846 Lansdowne House, Mayfair, London |
| Died | 21 June 1935 (aged 89) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Caroline FitzGerald (d. 1911) |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice PC (19 June 1846 – 21 June 1935), styled Lord Edmond FitzMaurice from 1863 to 1906, was a British Liberal politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1883 to 1885 and again from 1905 to 1908, when he entered the cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under H. H. Asquith. However, illness forced him to resign the following year.
Born at Lansdowne House, Mayfair, London, Fitzmaurice was the second son of Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne and his second wife Emily de Flahault, daughter of the French statesman Charles Joseph, comte de Flahaut. His elder brother was the statesman Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne. Fitzmaurice was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union in 1866. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1871, but never practised.
In 1868 Fitzmaurice was elected unopposed to Parliament for the family constituency of Calne, a seat he would hold until 1885, and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Robert Lowe, Chancellor of the Exchequer and later Home Secretary, from 1872 to 1874, when the Liberals fell from office. He was appointed Commissioner at Constantinople in 1880, overseeing the reorganisation of the European provinces of the Ottoman Empire under the Berlin Treaty of 1878. However, his ambitious plans and ideas for the area were never implemented.
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