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What position did Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton take from Apr 1833 to Dec 1834?
Henry Parnell , 1st Baron Congleton Henry Brooke Parnell , 1st Baron Congleton PC ( 3 July 1776 – 8 June 1842 ) , known as Sir Henry Parnell , Bt , from 1812 to 1841 , was an Irish writer and Whig politician . He was a member of the Whig administrations headed by Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne of the 1830s and also published works on financial and penal questions as well as on civil engineering . He was the great-uncle of Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell . Background and education . Parnell was the second son of Sir John Parnell , 2nd Baronet , Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer , and Laetitia Charlotte , daughter of Sir Arthur Brooke , 1st Baronet . His younger brother William Parnell-Hayes was the grandfather of Charles Stewart Parnell . He was educated at Eton and Trinity College , Cambridge . In 1801 he inherited the family estates in Queens County on the death of his father , bypassing his disabled elder brother according to a special Act of Parliament passed in 1789 . In 1812 he succeeded as fourth Baronet , of Rathleague , on the death of his brother . Political career . Parnell represented Maryborough in the Irish House of Commons from 1798 until the Act of Union in 1801 . In April the following year he was elected to Parliament of the United Kingdom for Queens County , but relinquished this seat already in July of the same year , when he was returned for Portarlington . However , he resigned the seat already in December 1802 . In 1806 he was once again elected for Queens County , and represented the constituency until 1832 . In 1828 he was chairman of the Select Committee on the State of Public Income and Expenditure which successfully recommended abolition of the 280-year old Navy Board and the merging of its functions into the Board of Admiralty . It was Parnells motion on the civil list that the Duke of Wellingtons administration was defeated in 1830 . The Whigs came to power under Lord Grey and in 1831 Parnell was admitted to the Privy Council and appointed Secretary at War , a post he held until February 1833 . He resigned his seat in Parliament the same year but returned in 1833 as the representative for Dundee . When the Whigs again came to power in April 1835 under Lord Melbourne , Parnell was made Paymaster of the Forces and Treasurer of the Ordnance and Navy . These offices were consolidated into that of Paymaster-General in 1836 , and Parnell retained this post until the government fell in 1841 . The latter year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Congleton , of Congleton in the County Palatine of Chester . Writings . Henry Parnell was also the author of several volumes and pamphlets on matters connected with financial questions , the most important being that On Financial Reform , published in 1830 . Parnell was strongly opposed to the prevailing protectionist system and passionately believed in the retrenchment of public expenditure , especially on the armed services . In On Financial Reform , he advocated the repeal of taxes on raw materials and home manufactures , along with the reduction of import duties on foreign manufactures . He also favoured the reduction of taxes on luxuries , such as tea , sugar , tobacco , wine and spirits . In order to pay for these reforms , Parnell proposed the reintroduction of the income tax . According to Sidney Buxton , On Financial Reform exercised a considerable influence on public opinion and laid before the country the financial and fiscal policy that Peel and Gladstone afterwards carried through . He was one of the main representatives of the so-called Free Banking School , which argued that the best way to achieve monetary stability was to revoke the Bank of Englands monopoly on the issue of banknotes . These ideas were defended by Parnell and others in opposition to those of the Currency School ( which advocated legal restrictions on the amount of notes that could be issued , with respect to their deposits in specie ) and the Banking School , which advocated discretionary policy by the banks in monetary matters . The influence of the Free Banking School declined significantly after Parnells death in 1842 , and the Bank Charter Act 1844 eliminated the right of new banks in England and Wales to issue notes , thus consolidating the Bank of Englands monopoly , which Parnell had opposed . Parnell also wrote about penal matters . In the domain of civil engineering , he authored the 1833 and 1838 editions of A Treatise on Roads .. . in which the works and techniques of Thomas Telford are described . Family . Lord Congleton married Lady Caroline Elizabeth , daughter of John Dawson , 1st Earl of Portarlington , in 1801 . In 1842 , having suffered for some time from ill-health and melancholy , he committed suicide by hanging , aged 65 . He was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son John Vesey Parnell . Lady Congleton died in February 1861 . Works . - Observations upon the State of Currency of Ireland , and upon the Course of Exchange between London and Dublin ( 1804 ; 2nd edn. , 1804 ; 3rd edn . ( with additional appendix ) , 1804 ) . - The Principles of Currency and Exchange , illustrated by Observations on the State of Ireland ( 1805 ) . - An Historical Apology for the Irish Catholics ( 1807 ) . - A History of the Penal Laws against the Irish Catholics , from the Treaty of Limerick to the Union ( 1808 ; a ‘new edition’ appeared in vols . xx . and xxi . of the Pamphleteer ( 1822 ) ; 4th edn . ( with slightly altered title ) , 1825 ) . - Treatise on the Corn Trade and Agriculture ( 1809 ) . - The Substance of the Speeches of Sir Henry Parnell , bart. , in the House of Commons , with additional Observations on the Corn Laws ( 1814 ; 3rd edn . published in vol . iv . of the Pamphleteer ( 1814 ) . - Observations on the Irish Butter Acts ( 1825 ) . - Observations on Paper Money , Banking , and Over-Trading , including those parts of the Evidence taken before the Committee of the House of Commons which explain the Scotch System of Banking ( 1827 , 1829 ) . - On Financial Reform ( 1830 ; 2nd edn. , 1830 ; 3rd edn. , 1831 ; 4th edn. , 1832 ) . Selections from this book , compiled by Henry Lloyd Morgan , were published under the title of National Accounts ( 2nd edn. , 1873 ) . - A plain Statement of the Power of the Bank of England , and the Use it has made of it ; with a Refutation of the Objections made to the Scotch System of Banking , and a Reply to “The Historical Sketch [ by J . R . McCulloch ] of the Bank of England,” ( 1832 ) . - A Treatise on Roads , wherein the Principles on which Roads should be made are explained and illustrated by the Plans , Specifications , and Contracts made use of by Thomas Telford , Esq. , on the Holyhead Road ( 1833 ; 2nd edn. , 1838 ) . - The Psalms : a new Version ( 1860 ; 2nd edn. , 1875 ) .