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George John Shaw-Lefevre | |
Only surviving son of Sir John George Shaw-Lefevre KCB |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Event |
12 June 1831 | | Born (Battersea) |
1854 | | Called to the bar by the Inner Temple |
1862 | | Member of the Sea Fisheries Commission |
17 October 1863 | 25 November 1885 | M.P. (Liberal) for Reading |
1865 | | Founder member of the Commons Preservation Society, the first pressure group committed to preserving open spaces and extending public rights of access to land |
9 May 1866 | 13 July 1866 | Civil Lord of the Admiralty during Russell's second ministry |
December 1868 | 1871 | Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade in Gladstone's first ministry |
17 March 1870 | 12 July 1870 | Parliamentary Secretary of the Admiralty (political function) |
24 March 1874 | | Married Constance Emily (d. 1929), only daughter of Henry John Moreton, later third earl of Ducie |
15 May 1880 | 1 December 1880 | Parliamentary Secretary of the Admiralty |
28 November 1880 | 13 February 1885 | First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings |
16 December 1880 | | Privy Councillor |
18 November 1884 | 24 June 1885 | Postmaster-general |
21 April 1886 | 15 July 1895 | M.P. (Liberal) for Bradford Central |
1892 | 1894 | First Commissioner of Works |
1894 | 1895 | President of the Local Government Board |
1897 | | Member of the London County Council |
1906 | | Created 1st Baron Eversley |
19 April 1928 | | Died (Kings Worthy, near Winchester) |