Northcote, Henry Stafford Northcote, Baron

Northcote, Henry Stafford Northcote, Baron

▪ British diplomat and statesman
also called  (from 1887) Sir Henry Stafford Northcote, Baronet  
born Nov. 18, 1846, London, Eng.
died Sept. 29, 1911, Ashford, Kent

      British diplomat and administrator, governor-general of Australia from 1904 to 1908.

      The second son of Sir Stafford Henry Northcote (afterward 1st Earl of Iddesleigh), he attended Eton College and Merton College, Oxford (B.A., 1869; M.A., 1873). He became a Foreign Office clerk in 1868 and, as an aide, accompanied his father to Washington, D.C., in 1871 in the settlement of the Alabama claims. He was private secretary to Lord Salisbury in Constantinople in 1876 and private secretary to his father as chancellor of the Exchequer from 1877 to 1880. He stood election from his family's seat of Exeter and served in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1899, during which he held minor posts in Salisbury's first and second governments. Upon his father's death in 1887, he was created a baronet.

      In 1899 he was appointed governor of Bombay (Mumbai) Presidency and, before leaving England (January 1900), was created a baron. At that time the area of Bombay, including Gujarāt, was suffering from famine and plague, and Northcote tried to improve hospital conditions and effect some land reform, benefiting small cultivators. Because government funds were meagre, some of his aid came out of his own purse.

      Appointed governor-general of Australia in August 1903, he was sworn in at Sydney in January 1904 and remained in Australia almost five years (returning to England in the fall of 1908). During his term of office he traveled all over Australia, averaging yearly some 10,000 miles (16,000 km) by land and sea. He gave his office considerable prestige and, being wealthy, was able to entertain hospitably in a grand manner. After his return to England, he bore the standard of the Commonwealth of Australia at the coronation of George V (1911). Northcote died without issue, and the peerage became extinct.

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