UK Elections Info

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Born: 19 March 1784

Died: 12 January 1856

Member of Privy Council -

son of Munbee Goulburn

son of Hon Susannah Chetwynd

husband of Jane Montagu

Trinity College, Cambridge (1801 -)

Under Secretary of State, Home Office	February 1810	August 1812
Under Secretary of State for War and the Colonies	August 1812	December 1821
Chief Secretary for Ireland	December 1821	April 1827
Chancellor of the Exchequer	26 January 1828	22 November 1830
Secretary of State for the Home Department	15 December 1834	18 April 1835
Chancellor of the Exchequer	3 September 1841	27 June 1846

16 June 1826	Cambridge University	Tory	437	33.80
19 June 1826	Armagh City	Tory	Unopposed
26 January 1828 Resignation of Rt Hon Henry Goulburn on appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
6 February 1828	Armagh City	Tory	Unopposed
11 August 1830	Armagh City	Tory	Unopposed
6 May 1831	Cambridge University	Tory	804	55.45
12 December 1832	Cambridge University	Tory	Unopposed
6 January 1835	Cambridge University	Conservative Party	Unopposed
25 July 1837	Cambridge University	Conservative Party	Unopposed
30 June 1841	Cambridge University	Conservative Party	Unopposed
3 September 1841 Resignation of Rt Hon Henry Goulburn on appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
15 September 1841	Cambridge University	Conservative Party	Unopposed
3 August 1847	Cambridge University	Conservative Party	1,189	50.79
10 July 1852	Cambridge University	Conservative Party	Unopposed
12 January 1856 Death of Rt Hon Henry Goulburn.