22-844: The Northcote-Trevelyan Report was a document prepared by Stafford H. Northcote (later to be Chancellor of the Exchequer ) and C.E. Trevelyan (then Permanent Secretary at the Treasury) about the British Civil Service . Commissioned in 1853 and published in February 1854, the report catalysed the development of Her Majesty's Civil Service in the United Kingdom . Influenced by the Chinese Imperial Examinations , it recommended that entry to
44-478: A constituency, replacing Dudley North . Dudley North prior to 2024 General Election 1939–40 Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected; General Election 1914–15 : Another General Election was required to take place before
66-688: A valuable study of Gladstonian finance, and Lectures and Essays (1887). His Life by Andrew Lang appeared in 1890. Northcote was appointed a CB in 1851 and a GCB in 1880 and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1866. He was one of only two people to hold the office of First Lord of the Treasury without ever being Prime Minister. Northcote married Cecilia Frances Farrer (died 1910), daughter of Thomas Farrer and sister of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer , in 1843. They had seven sons and three daughters. His eldest son, Walter, 2nd Earl of Iddesleigh ,
88-401: A vote over conflict with China in which the two men supported opposite sides in the vote. Northcote subsequently decided not to contest Dudley again and stood unsuccessfully for North Devon in 1857. He returned to Parliament the following year, when he was elected for Stamford in 1858, a seat that he exchanged in 1866 for North Devon . He was briefly Financial Secretary to the Treasury under
110-649: Is the administrative headquarters of Exeter University, Northcote House. The unincorperated community of Northcote, Minnesota was also named for him. Dudley (UK Parliament constituency) Dudley is a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Dudley in Worcestershire (now in the West Midlands ). It returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of
132-639: The Earl of Derby from January to July 1859. Steadily supporting his party, he became President of the Board of Trade in 1866, Secretary of State for India in 1867 and Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1874. In 1870, during the interval between the last two appointments, he was the Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company , North America's oldest company (established by an English royal charter in 1670), when it sold
154-566: The Northcote–Trevelyan Report , which revolutionized the conditions of appointment to the Civil Service. He succeeded his grandfather, Sir Stafford Henry Northcote (1762–1851), as 8th baronet in 1851. He entered Parliament in 1855 as Conservative Member of Parliament for Dudley with the support of the influential local landowner Lord Ward . However, tensions between Northcote and Lord Ward soon arose, in particular over
176-746: The Civil Service be solely on merit, to be enforced through the use of examinations. Its formal title was "Report on the Organisation of the Permanent Civil Service, Together with a Letter from the Rev. B. Jowett." The report is generally regarded as the founding document of the British Civil Service, enshrining the service with the "core values of integrity, propriety, objectivity and appointment on merit, able to transfer its loyalty and expertise from one elected government to
198-563: The First Lord of the Treasury's official residence, 10 Downing Street . Northcote was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1875 and Lord Rector of Edinburgh University in 1883, in which capacity he addressed the students on the subject of "Desultory Reading". From 1886 to 1887 he was also Lord Lieutenant of Devon . He was not a prolific or notable writer, but amongst his works were Twenty Years of Financial Policy (1862),
220-455: The Lords in 1885, when Lord Salisbury became prime minister. Taking the titles of Earl of Iddesleigh and Viscount St Cyres , he was included in the cabinet as First Lord of the Treasury . In Lord Salisbury's 1886 ministry he became Foreign Secretary , but the arrangement was not a comfortable one, and his resignation had just been decided upon when on 12 January 1887, he died very suddenly at
242-919: The Northwest Territories to Canada. Northcote was one of the commissioners for the settlement of the Alabama Claims with the United States, culminating with the Treaty of Washington in 1871. On Benjamin Disraeli 's elevation to the House of Lords as Earl of Beaconsfield in 1876, Northcote became Leader of the Conservatives in the Commons. As a finance minister, he largely continued the lines of policy laid down by Gladstone. However, he distinguished himself by his dealings with
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#1732765806111264-490: The United Kingdom , elected by the first past the post system. The constituency existed between 1832 and 1974 and was re-established by the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for the 2024 general election . The new constituency is based on the abolished Dudley North , with the addition of one ward from the also abolished Dudley South constituency. 1918–1950 : The County Borough of Dudley, and
286-408: The debt, especially his introduction of the new sinking fund in 1876 by which he fixed the annual charge for the debt in such a way as to provide for a regular series of payments off the capital. His temper as leader was, however, too gentle to satisfy the more ardent spirits among his own followers. Party cabals (in which Lord Randolph Churchill took a leading part) led to Northcote's elevation to
308-550: The electorate within the permitted range. The borough of Dudley returned two members to Parliament in 1295, Benedict Andrew and Ralph Clerk de Duddlegh, but not to any subsequent one. The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832 general election . It was abolished for the February 1974 general election , when it was replaced by the new Dudley East and Dudley West constituencies, which expanded beyond
330-520: The end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected; The election was declared void on petition, causing a by-election. Benbow's death caused a by-election. Hawkes resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds , causing a by-election. Campbell was appointed as Attorney General for England and Wales , requiring
352-588: The next". Recognising that, at the time, public administration was suffering “both in internal efficiency and in public estimation", it formed the basis for the principle of an impartial Civil Service. This article related to government in the United Kingdom or its constituent countries is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh GCB PC FRS (27 October 1818 – 12 January 1887), known as Sir Stafford Northcote, 8th Baronet from 1851 to 1885,
374-584: The parish of Dudley Castle Hill. 1950–1974 : The County Borough of Dudley, and the Borough of Stourbridge. 2024–present : The Metropolitan Borough of Dudley wards of Brockmoor & Pensnett, Castle & Priory, Gornal, St James's, St Thomas's, Sedgley, and Upper Gornal & Woodsetton. The seat comprises the whole of the previous Dudley North constituency with the addition of the Brockmoor and Pensnett ward from Dudley South (abolished), thus bringing
396-586: The town's historic boundaries to include Coseley and part of Sedgley in Dudley East (previously in the old Bilston constituency ), as well as Kingswinford , Brierley Hill , and the remainder of Sedgley in Dudley West. All of these areas had been incorporated into the Dudley borough in 1966. In the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies , it was recommended that Dudley should return as
418-406: Was a British Conservative politician. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1874 and 1880 and as Foreign Secretary between 1886 and 1887. According to Nigel Keohane, historians have portrayed him "as a man who fell short of the ultimate achievement of being prime minister largely because of personal weakness, and lack of political virility and drive." Northcote (pronounced "Northcut" )
440-914: Was a member of the House of Lords. His second son, Henry, 1st Baron Northcote , was Governor-General of Australia . Another son, Amyas , later became known as a writer of ghost stories . In the aftermath of the British Expedition to Abyssinia , Northcote built up a small but prestigious collection of Ethiopian artefacts that is now in the British Museum . The 1881 Census shows him living next door to Lord Randolph Churchill MP and family, at 30 St James Place , Westminster. The New Zealand suburbs of Northcote in Auckland , and Northcote in Christchurch are named after Northcote. As
462-677: Was born at Portland Place , Marylebone, London, on 27 October 1818. He was the eldest son of Henry Stafford Northcote (1792–1850), eldest son of Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, 7th Baronet and Jacquetta Baring, a member of the Baring family . His mother was Agnes Mary (died 1840), daughter of Thomas Cockburn, a member of Clan Cockburn and Henrietta Colebrooke, natural daughter of Robert Colebrooke , MP. His paternal Northcote ancestors had long been settled in Devon , tracing their descent from Galfridas de Nordcote who settled there in 1103. The family home
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#1732765806111484-517: Was situated at Pynes House northwest of Exeter . Northcote was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford and was called to the bar , Inner Temple , in 1847. In 1843 Northcote became private secretary to William Ewart Gladstone at the Board of Trade. Northcote was afterwards legal secretary to the board and, after acting as one of the secretaries to the Great Exhibition of 1851 , co-operated with Sir Charles Trevelyan in framing
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