Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Herries, Charles John

1388141Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 26 — Herries, Charles John1891Francis Watt

HERRIES, Sir CHARLES JOHN (1815–1883), financier, eldest son of J. C. Herries [q. v.], born in 1815, studied at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840. In 1842 Sir Robert Peel made him a commissioner of excise. In 1856 he was chosen by Sir George Cornewall Lewis to occupy the deputy chair of the board of inland revenue, and in 1877 Lord Beaconsfield raised him to the chairmanship. In 1871 he was made C.B., and in 1880 (on Mr. Gladstone's recommendation) K.C.B. He left the public service in November 1881, ‘and his eminent financial and administrative abilities were acknowledged in a treasury minute, 2 Dec. 1881, and subsequently presented to parliament.’ He died unmarried 14 March 1883, at his country house, St. Julian's, Sevenoaks. Herries wrote an introduction to the ‘Memoir of the Right Hon. J. C. Herries, by Edward Herries, C.B.’ 2 vols. 1880).

[Times, 16 March 1870, p. 8, col. 6; Burke's Knightage for 1883.]

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