\"Lord Of The Treasury\" Robert Vernon Hand Written Letter Dated 1863 COA For Sale

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\"Lord Of The Treasury\" Robert Vernon Hand Written Letter Dated 1863 COA:
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Up for sale a RARE! "1st Baron Lyveden" Robert Vernon Hand Written 2 Page Letter Dated 1863. 

February 1800 – 10 November 1873), known as Robert Vernon Smith until

1859, was a British Liberal Party politician.

Vernon was the son of Robert Percy Smith, of

20 Savile Row, London, and of Cheam,

Surrey, and the nephew of The Rev. Sydney Smith, Canon of St Paul's. His mother was Carolina

Maria Vernon, daughter of Richard Vernon. Vernon was educated at Christ Church, Oxford (2nd

class classics 1822). He was elected Member of Parliament for Tralee in

1829, a seat he held until 1831, and then sat for Northampton from

1831 to 1859. When the Whigs came to power in 1830 under Lord Grey,

Vernon was appointed a Lord of the Treasury (government

whip), which he remained also when Lord

Melbourne became Prime Minister in July 1834. The Whigs fell

from office in November of that year, but returned already in April 1835, when

Vernon was appointed Secretary of the Board of

Control by Melbourne, which he remained until 1839. He then

served as Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies from

1839 to 1841. The latter year he was also admitted to the Privy

Council. He did not hold office again until February 1852, when he

was made Secretary at War in

the first administration of Lord John Russell.

However, the government fell already the same month. When the Liberals (as the

Whigs were now known) returned to office in 1855 under Lord

Palmerston, Vernon was appointed President of the Board of

Control, with a seat in the cabinet, a post he retained until the

government fell in March 1858. The Indian Mutiny took place during his tenure. The following

year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Lyveden, of Lyveden in

the County of Northampton. and in 1879 he was appointed a Knight Grand

Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB).

In 1845 he was appointed one of the Lay Commissioners in Lunacy.

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