James Milnes Gaskell
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". James Milnes Gaskell DL JP (19 October 1810 – 5 February 1873) was a British Conservative politician.
Early life
James Milnes-Gaskell was born on 19 October 1810. He was the only child of Mary (Template:Nee Brandreth) Gaskell (a daughter of Dr. Joseph Brandreth of Liverpool) and Benjamin Gaskell (1781–1856) of Thornes House, Wakefield, West Yorkshire and Clifton Hall, Lancashire. His father was a Whig MP for Maldon. His paternal grandparents were Daniel Gaskell and Hannah (Template:Nee Noble) Gaskell (daughter of James Noble of Lancaster).[1]
He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.[2] His political interest may have been influenced by meeting lifelong friend William Ewart Gladstone as a school contemporary, and receiving visits during term from George Canning.[3]
Career
He was M.P. for Wenlock in Shropshire from 1832 until retiring in 1868. His uncle, Daniel Gaskell, also entered Parliament as first M.P. for Wakefield in 1832, at same general election as James.[4] He served as a Lord of the Treasury from 1841 to 11 March 1846 under Sir Robert Peel's administration.[5]
It was at Gaskell's then home in Tilney Street, London, in 1834, that Gladstone met his future wife, Catherine Glynne.[3]
Career
In 1832 he married Mary Williams-Wynn, daughter of the Rt Hon. Charles Williams-Wynn, (also a Member of Parliament) and Mary Cunliffe (a daughter of Sir Foster Cunliffe, 3rd Baronet). Together, they were the parents of two sons and two daughters, including:[2]
- Isabel Milnes Gaskell (c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".), who married the Rev. Fitzgerald Wintour.[2]
- Charles Milnes Gaskell (1842–1919), a Liberal MP who married Lady Catherine Henrietta Wallop,[6] daughter of the 5th Earl of Portsmouth in 1876.[7]
It was from his wife's cousin, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, that Gaskell bought in 1857 the site of Wenlock Priory, whose ruins he restored and whose Prior's Lodge he made into a family home.[3][8]
He died at 28 Norfolk Street, Park Lane, London on 5 February 1873, aged sixty-two, and was buried in the parish churchyard at Much Wenlock.[9]
Descendants
Through his daughter Isabel, he was a grandfather of Maj.-Gen. Fitzgerald Wintour (himself the grandfather of Vogue editor Anna Wintour).[2]
References
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External links
- Gaskell, James Milnes, (1810-1873), MP at the National Archives (United Kingdom)
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