Biography of Hugh Culling Eardley Childers

Hugh Culling Eardley Childers


Hugh Culling Eardley Childers
Son of Rev. Eardley Childers (d. 1831)

Date (from)	(Date to)	Event
25 June 1827		Born (London)
28 May 1850		Married Emily (died 1875), third daughter of G.J.A. Walker of Norton, Worcestershire
31 January 1860	25 November 1885	M.P. (Liberal) for Potefract
22 April 1864	23 January 1866	Civil Lord of the Admiralty in Palmerston's second ministry
August 1865	June 1866	Financial secretary to the Treasury
9 December 1868		Privy Councellor
18 December 1868	9 March 1871	First Lord of the Admiralty in Gladstone's first ministry (resigning after a nervous breakdown brought about by the vituperative arguments after the loss of the Captain, and the death of his second son, Leonard, who was a midshipman in that ship)
1872	1873	Paymaster-General
9 August 1872	30 September 1873	Cancellor of the duchy of Lancaster
1879		Married, in Paris, Katherine Ann (died 1895), daughter of A.T. Gilbert, bishop of Chichester, and widow of Colonel the Hon. Gilbert Elliot
28 April 1880	16 December 1882	Secretary of State for War in Gladstone's second ministry
16 December 1882	24 June 1885	Chancellor of the Exchequer in Gladstone's second ministry (until the ministry resigned after being defeated on Hicks-Beach's amendment to the Inland Revenue Bill
29 January 1886	July 1892	M.P. for Edinburgh South
6 February 1886	3 August 1886	Home Secretary in Gladstone's third ministry
29 January 1896		Died (London) of influenza