Member of Parliament for Rutland Lord of the Treasury
Gerard Noel (politician) took which position from Jul 1865 to Nov 1868?
Gerard Noel ( politician ) Gerard James Noel PC , DL , JP ( 28 August 1823 – 19 May 1911 ) , styled The Honourable Gerard Noel from birth , was a British Conservative politician . Early life . Noel was the eldest son of Charles Noel , 1st Earl of Gainsborough and , his third wife , Arabella , daughter of Sir James Hamlyn-Williams , 2nd Baronet . From his fathers second marriage to Elizabeth Grey ( a second daughter of Sir George Grey , 1st Baronet ) , he had an elder half-brother Charles , who married Lady Ida Harriet Augusta ( a daughter of William Hay , 18th Earl of Erroll and Elizabeth FitzClarence , an illegitimate daughter of King William IV ) who succeeded their father as the 2nd Earl of Gainsborough . From his parents marriage , he had three siblings , Henry Lewis Noel ( who married their cousin Emily Elizabeth Noel ) , Lady Mary Arabella Louisa Noel ( the wife of Sir Andrew Agnew , 8th Baronet ) , and Lady Catherine Hamilton Noel ( the wife of James Carnegie , 9th Earl of Southesk ) . From his fathers fourth marriage in 1833 to Lady Frances Jocelyn ( the second daughter of Robert Jocelyn , 3rd Earl of Roden ) , he had two younger half-siblings : Roden Noel ( a Groom of the Privy Chamber ) and Lady Victoria Noel ( the wife of Sir Fowell Buxton , 3rd Baronet , the Governor of South Australia ) . Career . Noel was elected Member of Parliament for Rutland in 1847 . He served under Lord Derby and then Benjamin Disraeli as a Lord of the Treasury from 1866 until 1868 , and then briefly under Disraeli as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury between November 1868 and the fall of the Conservative government in December of the same year . After the Conservatives returned to power in 1874 he was sworn of the Privy Council . From 1876 until 1880 Noel served under Disraeli ( then known as the Earl of Beaconsfield ) as First Commissioner of Works . In 1883 he resigned from his seat in parliament through appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds . Apart from his political career Noel was also a Captain in the 11th Hussars and a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Rutland . Personal life . On 30 June 1863 , Noel was married to Lady Augusta Mary , the second daughter of Lady Lucy Eleanor Sherard ( eldest daughter of Philip Sherard , 5th Earl of Harborough ) and Col . Hon . Henry Cecil Lowther of Barleythorpe Hall ( the second son of William Lowther , 1st Earl of Lonsdale ) . She was the also sister of Henry Lowther , 3rd Earl of Lonsdale . At his home , Catmose House , in Oakham , Rutland , he developed a fine garden which employed 15 gardeners . Together , they were the parents of : - Gerard Cecil Noel ( 1864–1925 ) , who married his cousin Madeline Edith Clifton , a daughter of Thomas Henry Clifton , MP for North Lancashire ( a son of John Talbot Clifton and grandson of Henry Lowther , MP for Westmorland ) , and Madeline Diana Elizabeth Agnew ( a daughter of Sir Andrew Agnew , Bt , MP for Wigtownshire ) , in 1897 . - Henry Cecil Noel ( 1868–1931 ) , who married Frances Mary Cockerell , a daughter of Frederick Pepys Cockerell , in 1902 . After their divorce in 1926 , he married , secondly , Janet Muriel Baird , daughter of William Baird ( a son of William Baird MP for Falkirk Burghs ) and Caroline Muriel Burn-Callander ( a descendant of the 8th Earl of Coventry ) , in August 1926 . Noel died at Oakham in May 1911 , aged 87 . Augusta Noel died in January 1916 .