Viscount Palmerston

* Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 1859 – 1865

* October 18 – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1784 )

* Prime Minister Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland )

* January 18 – British foreign secretary Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, sends ships to blockade the port of Piraeus, ostensibly as a result of the Don Pacifico affair.

* October 20 – Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1865 )

In 1845, Viscount Palmerston gave an indication of the role of the new steamships in tense Anglo-French relations, describing the English Channel as a " steam bridge ", rather than a barrier to French invasion.

File: Viscount Palmerston statue. jpg | Statue of Lord Palmerston, Parliament Square, London.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC ( 20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865 ), known popularly as Lord Palmerston, was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-19th century.

Henry was to become the 3rd Viscount Palmerston.

His father was Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston ( 1739 – 1802 ), and his mother Mary ( 1752 – 1805 ), daughter of Benjamin Mee, a London merchant.

Admiral Sir Augustus Clifford, 1st Bt., was a fag to Palmerston, Viscount Althorp and Viscount Duncannon and later remembered Palmerston as by far the most merciful of the three.

Palmerston succeeded his father to the title of Viscount Palmerston on 17 April 1802, before he had turned 18.

The whole work was reissued in a revised and slightly abridged form by Ashley in 2 volumes in 1879, with the title The Life and Correspondence of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston ; the letters are judiciously curtailed, but unfortunately without indicating where the excisions occur ; the appendices of the original work are omitted, but much fresh matter is added, and this edition is undoubtedly the standard biography.

* The Australian city of Darwin was previously named Palmerston in honour of the Viscount.

Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

* The Marquis of Lorne, Viscount Palmerston, K. G.

* David Steele, ‘ Temple, Henry John, third Viscount Palmerston ( 1784 – 1865 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, May 2009, accessed 11 December 2010.

The Viscount and Viscountess Alexander of Tunis are greeted by Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King | Mackenzie King upon the viceregal couple's arrival in Ottawa, 12 April 1946

Only Mackenzie Bowell and the Viscount Bennett were given private funerals, Bennett also being the only former Prime Minister of Canada to die and be buried outside the country and Bowell the only whose funeral was not attended by politicians.

Bennett retired to Britain in 1938, and, on June 12, 1941, became the first and only former Canadian Prime Minister to be elevated to the peerage as Viscount Bennett, of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgary and Hopewell in the Dominion of Canada.

This support came from the British press in the form of Viscount Astor, Lord Beaverbrook and former WW1 Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who were trenchant critics of the autocratic style of Winston Churchill and favoured replacing Winston with Menzies.

* January 28 – Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1782 )

* November 24 – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1779 )

* November 1 – Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1859 )

* May 30 – Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1844 )

* February 15 – Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1757 )

* August 31 – UK: Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, becomes Prime Minister of the UK, following the death of George Canning.

* July 16 – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne succeeds Earl Grey as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

* March 15 – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1848 )

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC, FRS ( 15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848 ) was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary ( 1830 – 1834 ) and Prime Minister ( 1834 and 1835 – 1841 ).

William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, KT, CH, MC, PC, DL ( 28 June 1918 – 1 July 1999 ), often known as Willie Whitelaw, was a British Conservative Party politician who served in a wide number of Cabinet positions, most notably as Home Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister.

His eldest son and heir apparent was Francis, Viscount Drumlanrig, who was rumoured to have been engaged in a relationship with the Liberal Prime Minister, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery.

* Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804

Former students include Harold Wilson ( who was twice British Prime Minister ), Norman Washington Manley ( Chief Minister of Jamaica ), T. E. Lawrence (" Lawrence of Arabia "), Angus Buchanan ( winner of the Victoria Cross ), and Viscount Sankey ( Lord Chancellor ).

Lady Caroline Lamb is a 1972 film based on the life of the notorious Lady Caroline Lamb, lover of Lord Byron and wife of Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne.

Her husband was the 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who later became Prime Minister.

James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, PC, PC ( NI ) ( 8 January 1871 – 24 November 1940 ), was a prominent Irish unionist politician, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.

Anthony Neil Wedgwood " Tony " Benn PC ( born 3 April 1925 ), formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a retired British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament ( MP ) for 50 years and a Cabinet Minister under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.

* George Henry Francis, Opinions and Policy of the The Right Honourable Viscount Palmerston, G. C. B., M. P., & c. as Minister, Diplomatist, and Statesman, During More Than Forty Years of Public Life ( London: Colburn and Co., 1852 ).

Edmund Bernard FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent KG, PC ( 1 June 1855 – 18 May 1947 ), known as Lord Edmund Talbot between 1876 and 1921, was a British Conservative politician and the last Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, in 1855.

Monck township named for Viscount Monck, Lord of the Treasury in the Palmerston government in the United Kingdom from 1855 to 1857 and governor-general of British North America form 1861 to 1868.

* Lady Victoria Alexandrina Spencer ( 1855 – 1906 ), married William Mansfield, 1st Viscount Sandhurst and had issue.

Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope FRS ( 30 January 1805 – 24 December 1875 ), styled Viscount Mahon between 1816 and 1855, was a British politician and historian.

* Robert Devereux, 15th Viscount Hereford ( d. 1855 )

* Gustavus Hamilton, 6th Viscount Boyne ( 1777 – 1855 )

* John Vesey, 2nd Viscount de Vesci ( 1771 – 1855 )

* James Hewitt, 3rd Viscount Lifford ( 1783 – 1855 )

His eldest son, the fourth Viscount, sat in the House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer from 1855 to 1881.

His son, the fourth Viscount, was an Irish Representative Peer between 1855 and 1887.

* James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater ( 1855 – 1949 )

* Sydney George Holland, 2nd Viscount Knutsford ( 1855 – 1931 )

* Arthur Henry Holland-Hibbert, 3rd Viscount Knutsford ( 1855 – 1935 )

Born William Chichester, he succeeded to the estates of his cousin William O ' Neill, 3rd Viscount O ' Neill, in 1855 ( on whose death the viscountcy and barony of O ' Neill became extinct ) and assumed by Royal license the surname of O ' Neill in lieu of Chichester in order to inherit the lands of his cousin, despite not being descended in the male line from an O ' Neill.

* Carnegie Parker Jervis, 5th Viscount St Vincent ( 1855 – 1908 )

* William Mansfield, 2nd Baron Sandhurst ( 1855 – 1921 ) ( created Viscount Sandhurst in 1917 )

* William Mansfield, 1st Viscount Sandhurst, 2nd Baron Sandhurst ( 1855 – 1921 )

* John O ' Neill, 3rd Viscount O ' Neill ( 1780 – 1855 ), Irish Tory politician

* Louis Patrick John Graf von Taaffe, 9th Viscount Taaffe ( 25 December 1791 – 21 December 1855 ), son of the 7th Viscount

* John Bruce Richard O ' Neill, 3rd Viscount O ' Neill ( 1780 – 1855 )

The Viscount Palmerston, of the Whigs, first formed a government by popular demand in 1855, after the resignation of the coalition government of Lord Aberdeen.

Taaffe was the second son of Louis Patrick John Graf von Taaffe, 9th Viscount Taaffe ( 1791 – 1855 ), a minister of justice in 1848 and president of the Austrian court of appeal.