Member of Parliament
Which position did Henry Goulburn hold from Dec 1832 to Dec 1834?
Henry Goulburn Henry Goulburn PC FRS ( 19 March 1784 – 12 January 1856 ) was a British Conservative statesman and a member of the Peelite faction after 1846 . Background and education . Born in London , Goulburn was the eldest son of a wealthy planter , Munbee Goulburn , of Amity Hall , Vere Parish , Jamaica , and his wife Susannah , eldest daughter of William Chetwynd , 4th Viscount Chetwynd . He was educated at Trinity College , Cambridge . Goulburn lived in Betchworth , Dorking in Betchworth House for much of his life . Sugar plantation owner . Goulburns inheritance included a number of sugar estates in Jamaica , Amity Hall in the parish of Vere , now Clarendon Parish being the most important . Slave labour was still being used to work the sugar plantations when he inherited the estates . Goulburn never visited Jamaica himself due to his health and political work ; he relied on attorneys to manage his estates on his behalf . One attorney , in particular , Thomas Samson , held the top job at the estate from 1802–1818 and earned a reputation for cruelty towards Goulburns slaves . By 1818 , the income from his Jamaican estates halved to less than £3,000 , although he did console himself that the condition of his slaves had probably improved . In 1818 , Henry Goulburn’s brother was sent to inspect the Jamaican Sugar Plantation . Thomas Samson had already been dismissed over his treatment of slaves . Henry Goulburn wrote to Samson in June of 1818 , “Since my brother’s return to England , I have had a great deal of conversation with him respecting the management of my Estate in Jamaica , the state of the Negroes and other particulars connected with it which from want of personal inspection of the property I have hitherto but imperfectly understood . The result had been a conviction upon my mind that as far as regards the negroes of the Estate , the system hitherto used by you had been founded altogether upon erroneous principles which ( though I believe to be too commonly followed on the generality of estates in Jamaica ) are such as I can never approve because I cannot consider them consistent with the duty which I owe to the negroes which belong to me.. . You have recently been possessed of a considerable property which makes the management of my Estate less if at all an object to you .. . therefore your removal from Amity Hall cannot inconvenience you in a pecuniary point of view.” Political career . In 1808 , Goulburn became Member of Parliament for Horsham . In 1810 , he was appointed Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs , and two and a half years later , he was made Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies . It was in this capacity that James Meehan named Goulburn , New South Wales after him , a naming that was ratified by Governor Lachlan Macquarie . Still retaining office in the Tory government , he became a Privy Counsellor in 1821 , and shortly afterwards was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland , a position which he held until April 1827 . Here , although he was frequently denounced as he was considered an Orangeman , he had a successful period of office on the whole , and in 1823 he managed to pass the Composition for Tithes ( Ireland ) Act 1823 . In January 1828 , he was made Chancellor of the Exchequer under the Duke of Wellington ; like his leader , he disliked Roman Catholic emancipation , which he voted against in 1828 . In the finance domain , Goulburns chief achievements were to reduce the interest rate on the part of the national debt and allow anyone to sell beer upon payment of a small annual fee , a complete change of policy about the drink traffic . Leaving office with Wellington in November 1830 , Goulburn was Home Secretary under Sir Robert Peel for four months in 1835 . When this statesman returned to office in September 1841 , he became Chancellor of the Exchequer for the second time . Although Peel himself did some of the chancellors work , Goulburn was responsible for a further reduction in the rate of interest on the national debt , and he aided his chief in the struggle , which ended in the repeal of the Corn Laws . With his colleagues , he left office in June 1846 . After representing Horsham in the House of Commons for over four years , Goulburn was successively member for St Germans , for West Looe , and for the city of Armagh . In May 1831 , he was elected for Cambridge University , and he retained this seat until his death . According to the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership at the University College London , Goulburn was awarded a payment as a slave trader in the aftermath of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 with the Slave Compensation Act 1837 . The British Government took out a £15 million loan ( worth £ in 2021 ) with interest from Nathan Mayer Rothschild and Moses Montefiore which was subsequently paid off by the British taxpayers ( ending in 2015 ) . Goulburn was associated with two different claims , he owned 277 slaves in Jamaica and received a £5,601 payment at the time ( worth £ in 2021 ) . Goulburn was a member of the Canterbury Association from 27 March 1848 . Family . Frederick Goulburn ( 1788–1837 ) , the first Colonial Secretary of New South Wales , was his younger brother . Henry Goulburn married the Hon . Jane , third daughter of Matthew Montagu , 4th Baron Rokeby , in 1811 . They had four children . He died on 12 January 1856 , aged 71 . His wife died the following year .