CHAPLIN, HENRY (1841 )

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CHAPLIN, HENRY (1841 ) , English statesman, second son of the Rev. Henry Chaplin, of Blankney, Lincolnshire, was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford, and first entered parliament in 1868 as Conservative member for Mid-Lincolnshire. He represented this constituency (which under the Redistribution Act of 1885 became the Sleaford division) till 1906, when he was defeated, but in 1907 returned to the

House

of Commons as member for

Wimbledon

WIMBLEDON

at a by-election. In 1876 he married a daughter of the 3rd duke of

Sutherland

SUTHERLAND, EARLS AND DUKES OF

, but lost his wife in 1881. Outside the

House

of Commons he was a familial figure on the

Turf

TURF

, winning the Derby with Hermit in 1867; and in politics from the first the " Squire of Blankney " took an active

interest

INTEREST

in agricultural questions, as a popular and typical representative of the English "country

gentleman

GENTLEMAN (from Lat. gentilis, " belonging to a race or gens," and " man "; Fr. gentilhomme, Span. gentil hombre, Ital. gentil huomo, in its
original
- ORIGINAL
and strict signification, a term denoting a man of good family, the Lat. generosus (its invariable transl

" class. Having filled the office of chancellor of the duchy of

Lancaster

in Lord Salisbury's short ministry of 18851886, he became president of the new Board of Agriculture in 1889, with a seat in the cabinet, and retained this post till 1892. In the Conservative cabinet of 18951900 he was president of the Local Government Board, and was responsible for the Agricultural Rates Act of 1896; but he was not included in the ministry after its reconstruction in 1900. Mr Chaplin had always been an advocate of protectionism, being in this respect the most prominent inheritor of the views of Lord George Bentinck; and when in 1903 the Tariff Reform

movement

MOVEMENT

began under Mr Chamberlain's leadership, he gave it his enthusiastic support, becoming a member of the Tariff Commission and one of the most strenuous

advocates

ADVOCATES, FACULTY OF

in the country of the new doctrines in opposition to free trade.

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