Everything about Henry Holland 1st Viscount Knutsford totally explained
Henry Thurstan Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford GCMG PC (
3 August 1825–
29 January 1914) was a British politician, best known for serving as
Secretary of State for the Colonies from
1887 to
1892.
The son of
Sir Henry Holland, 1st Baronet, a prominent physician, Holland was educated at
Harrow School,
Durham University, and
Trinity College, Cambridge, and took his degree in
1847. He studied law, and was called to the bar at the
Inner Temple in
1849. He practiced law privately until
1867, when he became legal advisor to the
Colonial Office. In
1870 he became assistant colonial undersecretary, serving until
1874, and in
1873, having succeeded his father as 2nd Baronet, he was elected to the
House of Commons as a
Conservative.
In Lord Salisbury's first administration (1885-1886), Holland served as
Financial Secretary to the Treasury and then as
Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education. He served in this role again at the beginning of Salisbury's second ministry (1886-1887), but was soon promoted to Colonial Secretary (in January 1887).
As Colonial Secretary, Knutsford (as he became when he was raised to the
House of Lords as
Baron Knutsford in
1888) was largely concerned with
South African affairs, being the Colonial Secretary who granted the charter for
Cecil Rhodes's British South Africa Company in
1887.
In
1895, Knutsford wasn't included in Salisbury's new government, and was instead raised within the
peerage as
Viscount Knutsford.
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