Darwin Correspondence Project

Politician and lawyer. BA, Oxford, 1850; fellow of Merton College, Oxford, 1851–74. Called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn, 1857. Secretary to the Royal Commission on disturbances in Jamaica under General Eyre, 1865. Secretary to the Royal Commission on the revenues of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 1872. Liberal MP for Grantham, 1880–5; Skipton, 1892–5.