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RARE "1st Viscount" Edward Cardwell Cut Signature:
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Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell, PC, FRS (24

July 1813 – 15 February 1886) was a prominent British politician in the middle of the 19th century. He is best remembered for his tenure

as Secretary of State for War between

1868 and 1874 and, with William Ewart Gladstone's

support, the introduction of the Cardwell Reforms. The goal was to centralise the power of the

War Office, abolish purchase of officers' commissions, and to create reserve

forces stationed in Britain by establishing short terms of service for enlisted

men. Cardwell was the son of John Henry Cardwell, of Liverpool, a merchant, and Elizabeth, daughter of Richard

Birley. He was educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford,

from where he took a degree in 1835. He was called to the bar, Inner Temple, in 1838.

Cardwell

was employed in the Colonial Office in the late 1830s, and directly involved in

drafting written instructions (sent to Sydney) to Captain William Hobson RN, as to how to 'treat with the natives'

(Maori) of New Zealand; thus he was indirectly involved in what would become

the founding document of New Zealand, the Treaty of Waitangi, signed 6 February

1840. Cardwell was elected Member of Parliament for Clitheroe in

Lancashire in 1842. He became a follower and confidant

of Sir Robert Peel,

the Prime

Minister, and held his first office under him as Financial

Secretary to the Treasury between 1845 and 1846.When Peel split the Conservative Party in

1846 over the issue of repealing the Corn Laws, Cardwell followed Peel, and became a member of the

Peelite faction. When the Peelites came to power in 1852, Cardwell was sworn of

the Privy

Council and made President of the Board a position he held until 1855.[1] In 1854 he passed the Cardwell

Railway Act which stopped the cut-throat competition between Railway Companies

which was acting to their and the railusers' disadvantage.[ During these years,

Cardwell moved from seat to seat in Parliament. In 1847, he was elected as MP

for Liverpool. In 1852, he lost elections for

Liverpool and for Ayrshire,

but won a seat at Oxford.

In 1857, he was defeated for the Oxford seat, but a second election for the

seat was held shortly after, which he won (beating William Makepeace Thackeray).The Peelite faction disintegrated

in the late 1850s, and Cardwell officially became a Liberal in cabinet as Chief Secretary for

Ireland. Unhappy in that position,[citation needed] he

moved two years later to another cabinet post, Chancellor

of the Duchy of Lancaster. A second move within the cabinet

came in 1864, when Cardwell became the Secretary of

State for the Colonies, a position he kept until the

Liberals were turned out of office in 1866. When the Liberals returned to power

under William Ewart Gladstone in the 1868

election, Cardwell reached the peak of his career, as Gladstone's Secretary of State for War. During his six years in the post,

in what became known as "Cardwell reforms", Cardwell reorganised the British army, introduced professional standards for officers

(including advancement by merit rather than purchase), and formed a

home reserve force. After Gladstone's defeat in the 1874

election, Cardwell was raised to the peerage as Viscount

Cardwell, of Ellerbeck in the County Palatine of Lancaster.[9] His ennoblement ended his active

political career. 

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