The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-14 00:00:00

THE Su N LONDON, MO"NTDAY
__EVENING. JANUARY l4, 18 5 6

DEATII OF THE RIGHT Flf;,\l. HEARY
GOULBURV, M.P.

We regret to announce the demise of the Right Hon.
Henry Goulburn, M.P. for the University of Cam-
bridge. The right hon. gentleman expired at three
o'clock on Saturday morning, at Beeohworth House,
near Dorking, Surrey, after a very short illness. The
deceased was eldest son of the late Mr. Manbee Gold-
burn and the Hon. Susan Chetwynd, daughter of Vis.
count Chetwynd. He was born in 1784, so that be
was in his 72d year. He was educated at Trinity Col-
lege, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. in 1808,
having the year previous been returned to the House of
Commons for the borough of Horsham. In 1811, just
after his entrance upon official life, he married the lion.
Jane Montagu, third daughter of Matthew, 4th Lord
Rokeby, and sister of the gallant peer now with the
army in the Crimea. The righthon. gentleman mae made
Under• Secretary of State for the Home Department i❑
Feb. 1810, under the Duke of Portland's Ministry, and
under the administration of his grace's successor,
the unfortunate Spencer Perceval. At the general elec-
tion in 1812 he was elected for St. Germains, and re-
presented that now disfranchised borough up to 1818,
having in 1812 been appointed by Lord Liverpool Under
Secretary of State for the Colonies, an office he held up
to 1821. In 181$ he was returned to the House of
Commons for West Looe, and sat for Armagh from
1826 to 1831. Mr. Goulburn accepted the post of Chief
Secretary for Ireland in December, 1821, and was then
made a privy councillor. He filled that office under the
several administrations of the Earl of Liverpool, Vis-
count Goderich, the Right Hon. George Canning, and
the Duke of Wellington, when, in March, 1828, the
illustrious Duke selected him to fill the important
office of Chancellor of the Exchequer, and he thus be-
came a member of the Cabinet, at the head of the
financial department of the state, until the Duke of
Wellington retired in January, 1830, to make way for
Earl Grey. At the general election, 1831, the mem-
bers of the University of Cambridge were discon-
tented with the Earl of Burlington (then Lord Caven-
dish) and Viscount Palmerston for their advocacy of
the Reform Bill, and Mr. Goulburn, who unsuccessfully
contested the University in 1826, and the Right Hon.
Wm. Yates Peel, started in opposition, and after a
severe contest ousted the former noble members. Since
then the right hon. gentleman has continued to repre-
sent that university in Parliament. On the formation
of Sir R. Peel's first ministry, in 1834, Mr. Goulburn
was appointed Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment, which he held till the Administration broke up in
April following. When Sir Robert was again called
upon in September, 1841, to take office, that astute
statesman selected Mr. Goulburn for his Chancellor of
the Exchequer. Since he retired with the late Sir R.
Peel, in the summer of 1846, the right hon. gentleman
has taken no very active part in politics, but has always
supported those measures he deemed necessary to fully
carry out the ♦iews of his distinguished friend on the
policy of free trade. The late Sir Robert Peel appointed
him one of his executors (Viscount Hardinge being
the other). The deceased gentleman, in 1839, was
proposed for the office of Speaker of the House of
Commons, supported by the Conservative party, but Mr.
Shaw Lefevre, the present Speaker, gained the election,
there being for Mr. Goulburn 299 votes, and for Mr.
Lefevre 317. The deceased enjoyed the annual pension
of 2,0001. By his unexpected death a vacancy is caused
in the House of Common for Cambridge University.