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DEBRETT S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. CARDWELL, VISCOUNT. (CARDWELL.) EDWARD CARDWELL, P.C., D.C.L., 1st Viscount, eldest son of the late John Card well, Esq., of Liverpool, by Elizabeth, daughter of the late Richard Birley, Esq. Born July 24th, 1813. Educated at 'Winchester and at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. double first-class 1835), Fellow of his College, 1836, and Hon. D.C.L. 1863. Called to the Bar at the Inner Temple 1838, and went the Northern Circuit. Was Joint 'Secretary to the Treasury from Feb. 1845 till June 1846; President Valiant and watchful. of the Board of Trade from Dec. 1852, when he was sworn a member of the Privy Council, till Feb. 1855; Chief Secretary for Ireland, with a seat in the Cabinet, from June 1859 till July 1861; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from July 1861 till April 1864, Secretary of State for the Colonies from April 1864 to July I860, and Secretary of State for War from Dec. 1868 till Feb. 1874. Is a Magistrate for Lancashire. Sat as ALP. for Clitheroe (L.) from 1842, when he was seated on petition, till July 1847, and for Liverpool from July 1847 till July 1852. Unsuccessfully contested in 1852 Liverpool and Ayrshire. Represented Oxford city from Jan. 1853 till April 1857, when he was an unsuccessful candidate; and from July 1857 till Feb. 1874. Married (1838) Anne, youngest daughter of the late Charles S. Parker, Esq., of Fairlie, N.B. Brother living, Charles, b. 181". sisters />/#, Jane, 6. 1815, m. 1843, Vice-Admiral Edward Gennys Fanshawe, C.B., Elizabeth, b. 1822, m. 1856, Sir Henry Thring, K.C.B., Barrister-at-Law. Creation, Viscount Cardwell, of Ellerbeck, in the county of Lancaster, 1874. 2nns, Argent, a chevron sable, in base a maiden's head erased proper, ducally crowned or, on a chief of the second two maidens' heads erased, also proper, ducally crowned or. (Trcst, A man in armour, holding 1 in the dexter hand a war mace, all proper, charged on the breast with a cross pattee gules. Supporters. On either side a man in armour holding in the exterior hand a battle-axe, all proper, charged on the breast with a ci-oss pattee gults. Seat, Ellerbeck-hall, near Chorley, Lancashire. Tuicn Residence, /4, Eaton -square, S.W. Club, Athenaeum. CAREW, BARON. (CAREW.) ROBERT SHAPLAND CAREW, K.P., 2nd Baron, Lord Lieut, and Gustos Rotulorum of Wexford. Born Jan. 28th, 1818; suc- ceeded his father in 1856; was educated at Christ Church, Oxford; has been Col. of the Wexford Militia since 1847; was M.P. for Waterford 1840 7; is a Magistrate for Waterford : married (1844) Emily Anne. 2nd daughter of Sir George Richard Philips, 2nd Bart, and has issue, living, Son, Robert Shapland George Julian, b. I860, Not to admire. Geor & e Patrick John > * 1863 ' Brother living, Shapland Francis, b. 1826, m. 1858.