UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 25 June 1827, London

Died: 29 January 1896

Member of Privy Council -

husband of Emily Walker

son of Maria Charlotte Smith

son of Rev Eardley Childers

husband of Katherine Anne Gilbert

Cheam School

Wadham College, Oxford

Trinity College, Cambridge (- 1850)

Civil Lord of the Admiralty	22 April 1864	23 January 1866
Financial Secretary to the Treasury	19 August 1865	26 June 1866
First Lord of the Admiralty	December 1868	March 1871
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	9 August 1872	30 September 1873
Secretary of State for War	28 April 1880	16 December 1882
Chancellor of the Exchequer	16 December 1882	9 June 1885
Secretary of State for the Home Department	6 February 1886	25 July 1886

29 April 1859	Pontefract	Liberal Party	296	53.82
31 January 1860	Pontefract	Liberal Party	320	55.46
April 1864 Resignation of Hugh Childers on appointment as a Civil Lord of the Admiralty.
20 April 1864	Pontefract	Liberal Party	Unopposed
13 July 1865	Pontefract	Liberal Party	359	54.89
17 November 1868	Pontefract	Liberal Party	913	53.80
December 1868 Resignation of Hugh Childers on appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty.
21 December 1868	Pontefract	Liberal Party	Unopposed
9 August 1872 Resignation of Hugh Childers on appointment as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
17 August 1872	Pontefract	Liberal Party	658	53.24
4 February 1874	Pontefract	Liberal Party	934	54.33
1 April 1880	Pontefract	Liberal Party	1,154	62.14
28 April 1880 Resignation of Rt Hon Hugh Childers on appointment as Secretary of State for the War Department.
8 May 1880	Pontefract	Liberal Party	Unopposed
25 November 1885	Pontefract	Liberal Party	1,075	49.18
29 January 1886	Edinburgh South	Liberal Party	4,029	69.96
3 February 1886 Appointment of Rt Hon Hugh Childers as Home Secretary.
9 February 1886	Edinburgh South	Liberal Party	Unopposed
6 July 1886	Edinburgh South	Liberal Party	3,778	63.29