Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable

| name = The Lord Heneage

| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|PC|DL|JP}}

| image = Edward Heneage Vanity Fair 17 December 1887.JPG

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| caption = "Grimsby"
Heneage as caricatured by "Spy" (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, December 1887

| order1 = Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

| term_start1 = 6 February 1886

| term_end1 = 16 April 1886

| monarch1 = Victoria

| primeminister1 = William Ewart Gladstone

| predecessor1 = Henry Chaplin

| successor1 = Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, Bt

| birth_date = {{birth date|1840|3|29|df=y}}

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1922|8|10|1840|3|29|df=y}}

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| nationality = British

| party = Liberal
Liberal Unionist

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| spouse = Lady Eleanor Hare (died 1924)

}}

Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|PC|DL|JP}} (29 March 1840 – 10 August 1922), was a British Liberal and Liberal Unionist politician. He was briefly Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under William Ewart Gladstone between February and April 1886, when he broke with Gladstone over Irish Home Rule and joined the Liberal Unionists.

Background and education

Heneage was the eldest son of George Heneage, of Hainton Hall in Hainton, Lincolnshire, and Frances (née Tasburgh), daughter of Michael Tasburgh.{{Cite book|title=Oxford dictionary of national biography.|others=British Academy., Oxford University Press.|date=13 March 2024 |isbn=9780198614128|edition=Online|location=Oxford|oclc=56568095}} He was educated at Eton and served with the 1st Life Guards from 1857 to 1863.

Political career

Heneage was elected Member of Parliament for Lincoln in 1865, a seat he held until 1868.{{Cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Lcommons3.htm |title=leighrayment.com House of Commons: Lichfield and Tamworth to London and Westminster South |access-date=5 October 2009 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029034529/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Lcommons3.htm |archive-date=29 October 2008 }}{{cite book

|last=Craig

|first=F. W. S.

|author-link= F. W. S. Craig

|title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885

|origyear=1977

|edition= 2nd

|year=1989

|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services

|location=Chichester

|isbn= 0-900178-26-4

}} He remained out of parliament until 1880, when he was returned for Grimsby.{{Cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Gcommons2.htm |title=leighrayment.com House of Commons: Gorbals to Guildford |access-date=5 October 2009 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101231171509/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Gcommons2.htm |archive-date=31 December 2010 }} When the Liberals came to power under William Ewart Gladstone in February 1886, Heneage was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster{{London Gazette |issue=25557 |date=9 February 1886 |page=614 }} and vice-president of the Committee of Agriculture and sworn of the Privy Council.{{London Gazette |issue=25557 |date=9 February 1886 |page=613 }} However, he resigned these offices in April after disagreeing with Gladstone over Irish Home Rule. He joined the Liberal Unionist Party the same year.

Heneage lost his Grimsby seat at the 1892 general election, but was successfully returned for the same constituency in a by-election the following year.{{cite book

|last=Craig

|first=F. W. S.

|author-link= F. W. S. Craig

|title=British parliamentary election results 1885–1918

|origyear=1974

|edition= 2nd

|year=1989

|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services

|location=Chichester

|isbn= 0-900178-27-2

}} He was Chairman of the Liberal Unionist Council from 1893 to 1898.{{Citation needed|date=October 2009}} In June 1896 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Heneage, of Hainton in the County of Lincoln.{{London Gazette |issue=26747 |date=9 June 1896 |page=3382 }} He was a regular contributor in the House of Lords, making his last speech in June 1920 at the age of 80.{{hansard-contribs | mr-edward-heneage | Edward Heneage}}

Apart from his political career Heneage served as vice-chairman of Lindsey Quarter Sessions and as High Steward of Grimsby. In 1881 he made a gift of land to the people of Grimsby which became People's Park. A plaque in the Park commemorates this gift.[https://www.parksandgardens.org/places/peoples-park-grimsby People's Park, Grimsby], Parks & Gardens website

Family

File:Edward Heneage grave Hainton.jpg]]

Lord Heneage married Lady Eleanor Cecilia Hare, daughter of William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel, in 1864, the same year he succeeded to his family estates. They had three sons and six daughters. Two of their sons went on to inherit the Baron Heneage title.

He died in August 1922, aged 82, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, George. Lady Heneage survived him by two years and died in September 1924.{{cite web|url=https://houseandheritage.org/2019/06/18/hainton-hall/|website=houseandheritage.org|title=Hainton hall|author=David Poole|date=18 June 2019}}

References

{{reflist|refs={{ harv | Hesilrige | 1921 | page=465}}}}

=Work cited=

{{cite book | last=Hesilrige | first=Arthur G. M. | date=1921 | title=Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy | url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeeraget00unse/page/465 | location=160A, Fleet street, London, UK | publisher=Dean & Son | page=465 }}