Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth
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The Right Honourable The Lord Tweedmouth KT PC |
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| Lord Privy Seal | |
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In office 10 March 1894 – 21 June 1895 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Earl of Rosebery |
| Preceded by | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Succeeded by | The Viscount Cross |
| Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | |
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In office 28 May 1894 – 21 June 1895 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Earl of Rosebery |
| Preceded by | James Bryce |
| Succeeded by | The Lord James of Hereford |
| First Lord of the Admiralty | |
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In office 10 December 1905 – 12 April 1908 |
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| Monarch | Edward VII |
| Prime Minister | Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman |
| Preceded by | The Earl Cawdor |
| Succeeded by | Reginald McKenna |
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In office 12 April 1908 – 13 October 1908 |
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| Monarch | Edward VII |
| Prime Minister | H. H. Asquith |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Crewe |
| Succeeded by | The Viscount Wolverhampton |
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| Born | 8 July 1849 |
| Died | 15 September 1909 (aged 60) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal Party |
| Spouse(s) | Lady Fanny Spencer-Churchill (1853–1904) (m. 1873; her death 1904) |
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth KT PC (8 July 1849 – 15 September 1909) was a moderate British Liberal Party statesman who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1894 when he inherited his peerage and then sat in the House of Lords. He served in various capacities in the Liberal governments of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Tweedmouth was the son of Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth, and Isabella, daughter of Sir James Hogg, 1st Baronet.Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, was his sister. He is descended from Joseph Marjoribanks, a wine and fish merchant in Edinburgh who died in 1635 and is thought to have been the grandson of Thomas Marjoribanks of Ratho, head of the lowland Clan Marjoribanks.
Tweedmouth was returned to Parliament for Berwickshire in 1880, a seat he held until 1894. He served under William Ewart Gladstone as Comptroller of the Household in between February and July 1886 and was sworn of the Privy Council the same year. When the Liberals returned to power under Gladstone in 1892, he was made Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (chief whip). He succeeded his father in the barony in March 1894, only a few days before Gladstone resigned and Lord Rosebery became Prime Minister. Rosebery appointed Tweedmouth Lord Privy Seal, with a seat in the cabinet, and in May 1894 he also became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He retained these posts until the government fell in 1895.
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