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Lord Northcote

The Right Honourable
The Lord Northcote
GCMG GCIE CB PC
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3rd Governor-General of Australia
In office
21 January 1904 – 9 September 1908
Monarch Edward VII
Prime Minister Alfred Deakin
Chris Watson
George Reid
Preceded by The Lord Tennyson
Succeeded by The Earl of Dudley
Governor of Bombay
In office
17 February 1900 – 5 September 1903
Preceded by William Mansfield
Succeeded by James Monteath
Member of Parliament
for Exeter
In office
1 April 1880 – 19 December 1899
Serving with Edward Johnson (1880–1885)
Preceded by Edward Johnson
Succeeded by Edgar Vincent
Personal details
Born (1846-11-18)18 November 1846
London, United Kingdom
Died 29 September 1911(1911-09-29) (aged 64)
Ashford, Kent
United Kingdom
Spouse(s) Alice Stephen (died 1934)
Education Eton College
Alma mater Merton College, Oxford

Henry Stafford Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote GCMG GCIE CB PC (18 November 1846 – 29 September 1911), known as Sir Henry Northcote, Bt, between 1887 and 1900, was a Conservative politician and colonial administrator. He served as the third Governor-General of Australia between 1904 and 1908.

Northcote was born in London, the second son of the prominent Conservative politician Sir Stafford Northcote, later first Earl of Iddesleigh, by his wife Cecilia Frances, daughter of Thomas Farrer and sister of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer. He was educated at Eton and Merton College, Oxford (B.A. 1869; M.A. 1873), and then joined the Foreign Office as a diplomat.

Northcote was secretary to the British delegation negotiating the Alabama Claims between 1871 and 1873. From 1877 to 1880 he was private secretary to his father, then Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 1880 he was elected to the House of Commons as MP for Exeter, a seat he held until 1899. He served under Lord Salisbury as Financial Secretary to the War Office between 1885 and 1886 and as Surveyor-General of the Ordnance between 1886 and 1888, when that office was abolished. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1880 and created a Baronet, of Seamore Place in the Parish of St George, Hanover Square, in the County of Middlesex, in 1887. On his resignation after 20 years as MP, he was in January 1900 presented with the Freedom of the City of Exeter.


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