President of the Board of Health
Which position did William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly hold between Aug 1862 and Nov 1863?
William Monsell , 1st Baron Emly William Monsell , 1st Baron Emly , PC ( 21 September 1812 – 20 April 1894 ) was an Anglo-Irish landowner and Liberal politician . He held a number of ministerial positions between 1852 and 1873 , notably as President of the Board of Health in 1857 and as Postmaster General between 1871 and 1873 . Background and education . Monsell was born to William Monsell ( 1778–1822 ) , of Tervoe , Clarina , County Limerick , and Olivia , daughter of Sir John Johnson-Walsh , 1st Baronet , of Ballykilcavan . He was educated at Winchester ( 1826–1830 ) and Oriel College , Oxford , but he left the university without proceeding to a degree in 1831 . As his father had died in 1824 , he succeeded to the family estates on coming of age and was a popular landlord , the more so as he was resident . In 1843 he helped found St Columbas College in Whitechurch , now part of Dublin . Political career . Monsell served as the Sheriff of County Limerick in 1835 . In 1847 , he was elected Member of Parliament for County Limerick as a Liberal , and represented the constituency until 1874 . In 1850 , he became a Roman Catholic and thereafter took a prominent part in Catholic affairs , especially in Parliament . As a friend of Wiseman , Newman , Montalambert , W . G . Ward , and other eminent Catholics , he was intimately acquainted with the various interests of the Church , and his parliamentary position was often of great advantage to the Church . In 1852 Monsell was appointed Clerk of the Ordnance by Lord Aberdeen , a post he retained until 1857 , the last two years under the premiership of Lord Palmerston . In 1855 he was sworn of the Privy Council . He was briefly President of the Board of Health under Palmerston in 1857 and later served under Lord Russell as Paymaster-General and Vice-President of the Board of Trade in 1866 and under William Ewart Gladstone as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies between 1868 and 1871 and as Postmaster-General between January 1871 and November 1873 . He was also Lord Lieutenant of County Limerick between 1871 and 1894 and Vice-Chancellor of the Royal University of Ireland between 1885 and 1894 . On 12 January 1874 Monsell was raised to the peerage as Baron Emly , of Tervoe in the County of Limerick . He lost much of his popularity in Ireland during his later years , because of his opposition to the Irish National Land League and to the home rule movement in Ireland . His work being chiefly parliamentary , he wrote little , but published some articles in the Home and Foreign Review and a Lecture on the Roman Question ( 1860 ) . Family . Lord Emly was twice married . He married firstly Lady Anna Maria Charlotte Wyndham-Quin ( 1814–1855 ) , only daughter of Windham Quin , 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl , in August 1836 , with whom he had two sons , both of whom died in infancy . After her death on 7 January 1855 , he married Bertha ( 1835–1890 ) , youngest daughter the Comte de Montigny of the house of Montigny de Perreux , in 1857 , by whom he had one son Gaston ( 1858–1932 ) , later the second Lord Emly , and one daughter Mary Olivia ( 1860–1942 ) . Lord Emly died in April 1894 , aged 81 . Sources . - Matthew Potter , William Monsell of Tervoe 1812–1894 Catholic Unionist , Anglo-Irishman , Foreword by Gearóid O Tuathaigh ( Dublin : Irish Academic Press,2009 ) . - Matthew Potter , A Catholic Unionist . The Life and Times of William Monsell , First Baron Emly of Tervoe 1812–1894 , ( unpublished Ph.D thesis NUI Galway , 2001 ) .