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Henry Goulburn PC FRS (19 March 1784 – 12 January 1856) was a British Conservative statesman and a member of the Peelite faction after 1846.
Henry Goulburn (1784-1856), politician, was born on 19 March 1784 in London, the eldest son of Munbee Goulburn and his wife Susannah, daughter of the fourth Viscount Chetwynd, and brother of Frederick Goulburn.
Most of the papers concern the properties when they were administered by Conservative MP Henry Goulburn between 1805 and 1856. They provide a comprehensive overview of the operation and eventual abolition of the slave trade in Jamaica and the West Indies.
Biography. Conservative MP for a number of seats, the longest of which was Cambridge University, Chancellor of the Exchequer under Wellington (1828-30) and then Peel (1841-6), and briefly Home Secretary (1834-5) under the latter.
British politician Henry Goulburn (1784-1856) was born in London, England, to Munbee Goulburn and Susannah Chetwynd. Henry graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, with a Master of Arts degree in 1808, and became undersecretary of the home department in 1810.
Henry Goulburn (1784-1856), statesman, was born in London on 19 March 1784. He was admitted to Trinity College Cambridge in 1800, and matriculated at the age of seventeen and entered Trinity as a fellow commoner in 1801, graduated BA in 1805, followed by MA in 1808.
Between 1812 and 1821 Goulburn worked in the War and Colonial Office, where he effectively administered Britain's far-flung possessions. Appointed chief se...
