Ralph Earle (politician)
Ralph Anstruther Earle (1835 – 10 June 1879)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician.
He was elected at the 1859 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Berwick-upon-Tweed,[2] but resigned from the House of Commons the same year through appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds on 12 August 1859.[3]
He returned to Parliament at the 1865 general election, when he was elected as one of the two MPs for Maldon in Essex, but did not stand again when Maldon's representation was reduced to one seat at the 1868 general election.[4] Earle, whose brother was General Earle of the General Stff during the Crimean War campaign, was a Whig by inclination. However he was soon talent spotted by Benjamin Disraeli who was looking around the House for new allies. The Chancellor of Exchequer cast his net wide among conservative Whigs, Radicals, all those who wished to oppose Gladstone, and his proposal in 1866 for an extension to the franchise. Earle was in 1867, briefly appointed a minister but soon becoming very disillusioned with political intrigue, which he did not understand, he resigned to become a financier in the middle-east, near the Suez Canal zone.
References
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 1)
- ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 41. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
- ^ Department of Information Services (9 June 2009). "Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850" (PDF). House of Commons Library. Retrieved 30 November 2009.
- ^ Craig, op. cit. page 201
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