The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-08-12
The British Cabinet.

the members OF the new CaDlneJ Oh bIedV
Britain and Ireland, may be interesting, as
showing the usual course of education and
training which lead to the highest offices
of State in that Kingdom;
The public school, the university, often
times a profession, a seat IN the House
of Commons is the almost universally
trodden road to the Government of Great
Britain. The annexed sketch will show
how far the members Of the present Cabi-
net have qualified themselves for their re-
spective posts, as to education and general
experience of public business.
Lord Salisbury, Prime Minister. Edu-
Gated at Elton and Oxford, fellowship
sat in the Commons for fifteen years
Hardinge Giffard, Lord Halsbury, Lord
Chancellor, is an NJ A. of Oxford, has been
Solicitor General and member OF the House
of Commons for eight years.
Stafford Northcote, Lord Iddeslelgh,
First Lord of the Treasury, Elton and Ok
ford, barrister, has been in the House OF
Commons for thirty years.
Lord Carnarvon, Lord Lieut.. OF Ireland,
Elton and Oxford DIST class classics) was
never in the Commons, but has held office
as Under Secretary or Secretary OF State
for seven years.
Lord Cranbrook, President of the COun
Gil, educated at Shrewsbury and Oxford,
barrister, sat in the Commons for twenty
two years, has held several important off
ces, Cabinet and other.
Lord narrowly, Privy Seal, educated at
Harrow and Oxford, in the Commons for
seventeen years, has held several lmpor
tant offices.
Sir NJ. Hicks Beach. Chancellor of Elk
ehequer, Elton and Oxford, now twenty
years in the House of Commons, has held
many important offices
Sir Richard Cross, Home Secretary, ed
ucated at Rugby and Cambridge, barns
ter, twenty years in the House Of Com
mons; has held the same Cabinet office
before
Col. Hon. f. A. Stanley, Secretary for
the Colonies, educated at Elton, and thence
entered the army. Twenty years III the
Commons and has held Office, but not in
the Cabinet before.
Ri. Hon. W. H. Smith, Secretary for
War, schools or colleges not recorded
Member for Westminster for seventeen
years, has held office in a former Cabinet
Lord r. Churchill, Secretary for India
educated at Elton and Oxford, has sat in
the Commons for eleven years, never held
Office before.
Lord George Hamilton, First Lord OF
Admiralty, educated at Harrow, thence
passed into the army, seventeen years IL
the House of Commons, has held various
offices before.
Rt. Hon. Ed. Gibson, Lord Chancellor
of Ireland, educated at Trinity College
Dublin. Member for Dublin University
for fourteen years, and Attorney General
for Ireland for three years.
Lord Jno. Manners. Postmaster General
educated at Elton and Cambridge, has sat
in the Commons for forty years and held
many important posts, his present one
among others.
The Duke of Richmond and Gordon
President of the Board of Trade, educated
at Westminster and Oxford, twenty year;
in the Commons, has held the same anc
other posts.
Hon. Ed. Stanhope, Vice President o.
the Council, educated at Harrow and Ok
ford, fellowship barrister, entered the
House of Commons in 1874, has held sun
dry important offices.
The Cabinet thus consists of sixteeI
Ministers, of whom seven, including the
two recent creations, are Peers, four IN
herited and three achieved their rank, anC
six Of the seven have represented constlt
uences in the House of Commons.
The oldest Minister is Lord Cranbrook
aged II years, the youngest IS Randolph
Churchill, 36 years, giving mean Of 81.
years.
OF the great public schools Elton Is rep
resented by seven, Harrow by three, Rugby
Westminster, Dublin and Shrewsbury on
each.
OF Universities, Oxford claims ten, Cam
bridge two, Dublin one, and three are non
University men.
OF professions, there are six member
of the Bar, and two army men. Seven o
the other eight have not practiced an
profession, the eighth, Rt Hon. w. i
Smith is the great news agent, who's
name may be seen over every book stall i
every railway station throughout til
United Kingdom. He was elected by tn
great city of Westminster in 1865, his al
faConiet bpinsr fhe late Jno Smart NIL