John Charles Herries

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John Charles Herries (1778 – 1855) was an English politician and financier and a frequent member of Tory and Conservative cabinets in the early to mid 19th century.

Herries was Secretary to the Treasury (1823 - 1827), Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Goderich's government (1827 - 1828), Master of the Mint under the Duke of Wellington (1828 - 1830), briefly President of the Board of Trade (1830), Secretary at War under Sir Robert Peel (1834 - 1835), and finally President of the Board of Control in Lord Derby's first government (1852).

Herries was one of few men of ministerial experience to side with the protectionist Tories after the repeal of the Corn Laws. Following the death of Lord George Bentinck in 1848, Herries was suggested by Lord Stanley as an alternative to Benjamin Disraeli as Shadow Leader of the House of Commons. In the end Herries declined, and Disraeli gradually came into his own as leader. Staunchly protectionist, Herries was in repeated conflict with Disraeli who, despite championing protectionism barely six years previously, was hurriedly disassociating both himself and the party with that doctrine. The two never got along, and Herries' refusal to assist in the framing of the 1852 Budget (which he regarded as "wild work"), cannot have helped matters. By the time of Derby's second government in 1858, Herries had died. Ironically enough his son, Charles Herries, was appointed Chairman of the Inland Revenue Board by Disraeli during the latter's second premiership in 1877.

[edit] References

Blake, Robert (1966). Disraeli, New York: St Martin's Press. ISBN 0-19-832903-2.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles Bathurst	Member of Parliament for Harwich 1823–1847	Succeeded by William Beresford
Preceded by Sir George Clerk, Bt	Member of Parliament for Stamford 1847–1853	Succeeded by Viscount Cranborne
Political offices
Preceded by George Canning	Chancellor of the Exchequer 1827–1828	Succeeded by Henry Goulburn
Preceded by George Tierney	Master of the Mint 1828–1830	Succeeded by The Lord Auckland
Preceded by William Vesey-FitzGerald	President of the Board of Trade 1830	Succeeded by The Lord Auckland
Preceded by Edward Ellice	Secretary at War 1834–1835	Succeeded by Viscount Howick
Preceded by Marquess of Granby	Conservative Leader of the Commons 1849–1851 with Benjamin Disraeli and Marquess of Granby	Succeeded by Benjamin Disraeli
Preceded by Fox Maule	President of the Board of Control 1852	Succeeded by Sir Charles Wood