Aurora borealis academica : Aberdeen University appreciations, 1860-1889.

Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Aurora borealis academica : Aberdeen University appreciations, 1860-1889. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Although continuing to sit in Parliament until his death in 1885, and strongly supporting the views he held as to the necessity for preventing intimidation and crime in Ireland by firm measures, he took little further part in public affairs. His Rectorial Ad- dress in Aberdeen was delivered on 24th November, 1876, and was entitled “ What help University life affords to students to be politicians The contest of 1878 was between Lord Rosebery and Lord (then Mr.) Cross, the former having a majority in Mar, Buchan and Moray nations, the latter in the Angus nation. Lord Rosebery was born in May, 1847, and was educated at Eton, and Christ Church, Oxford. His first introduction to official life was as Under Secretary of State to the Home Department in August, 1881, which post he held until January, 1883. In November, 1884, he became First Commissioner of Works. After holding the office of Lord Privy Seal for a short time, he took the seals of the Foreign Office in Mr. Gladstone’s third, and short lived, administration of 1885. In January, 1888, he was elected a member, by the City Division, of the London County Council, and was first chairman of that body. On Mr. Gladstone forming his fourth Government in 1892, Lord Rosebery was appointed Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and when Mr. Glad- stone retired in March, 1894, he succeeded to the