George Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan
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The Right Honourable The Earl Cadogan KG PC JP |
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| Lord Lieutenant of Ireland | |
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In office 29 June 1895 – 11 August 1902 |
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| Monarch |
Queen Victoria Edward VII |
| Prime Minister |
The Marquess of Salisbury Arthur Balfour |
| Preceded by | The Lord Houghton |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Dudley |
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12 May 1840 Durham, England |
| Died | 6 March 1915 (aged 74) London |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | (1) Lady Beatrix Craven (1844–1907) (2) Adele Neri (d. 1960) |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
George Henry Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan KG PC JP (12 May 1840 – 6 March 1915) was a British Conservative politician.
Cadogan was the eldest son of Henry Cadogan, 4th Earl Cadogan, by his wife Mary, daughter of Reverend Gerald Wellesley, younger brother of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. He was born in the city of Durham and baptised at St James's, Westminster, London. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.
As Viscount Chelsea, Cadogan served as a Major in the 5th (Militia) Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) from 1865 to 1872; he was later Honorary Colonel of the battalion from 1886, and of the 2nd (South) Middlesex Rifle Volunteers from 1892 to 1902.
In the 1868 General Election, he stood unsuccessfully as parliamentary candidate for Bury, Lancashire but was successfully returned as Member of Parliament for Bath in a by-election in May 1873, just before he was ennobled on the death of his father on 8 June and had to move to the House of Lords. He was made Under-Secretary for War in 1875 and Under-Secretary to the Colonies in 1878 by Disraeli.
He served under Lord Salisbury as Lord Privy Seal from 1886 to 1892 (after 1887 in the Cabinet), and again in the cabinet as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1895 to 1902. In the latter office, he supported the Land Act of 1896 which enabled Irish tenants to buy their homes from their landlords' estates and pressed the Treasury for more liberal terms than initially intended, appointed commissions to investigate intermediate education (1899) and university education (1901), and sponsored the Act of 1899 that created a department of agriculture, industries and technical education for Ireland. He was first Mayor of Chelsea in 1900 and a Justice of the Peace for the counties of Middlesex, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and London.
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