STANSFELD, SIR JAMES (182o-1898)

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STANSFELD, SIR JAMES (182o-1898) , English politician, was born at Moorlands,

Halifax

, on the 5th of October 182o, the son of James

Stansfeld

STANSFELD, SIR JAMES (182o-1898)

, a county-court judge. Educated at University College, London, he was called to the bar in 1849. In 1847 he was introduced through his father-in-law, W. H. Ashurst, to Mazzini, with whom he formed a close friendship. In 1859 he was returned to

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

as Radical member for

Halifax

, which town he continued to represent for over thirty-six years. He voted consistently on the Radical side, but his

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

energies were devoted to promoting the cause of Italian unity. He was selected by Garibaldi as his adviser when the Italian patriot visited England in 1862. In 1863 he moved in the

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Commons a resolution of sympathy with the Poles, and two months later was made a junior lord of the admiralty. In 1864, as the result of charges made against him by the French authorities, in connexion with Greco's cdnspiracy against

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

III., Disraeli, in the

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Commons, accused him of being " in correspondence with the assassins of Europe."

Stansfeld

STANSFELD, SIR JAMES (182o-1898)

was vigorously defended by

Bright

BRIGHT, JOHN (1811-188g)
BRIGHT, SIR CHARLES TILSTON

and Forster, and his explanation was accepted as quite satisfactory by

Palmerston

. Nevertheless he only escaped a vote of censure by ten votes, and accordingly resigned office. In 1865 he was re-elected for Halifax, and in 1866 became under-secretary of state for India. In the first Gladstone administration he held a variety of public offices, finally becoming, in 1871, the first president of the local government board. The

remainder

REMAINDER, REVERSION

of his life was mainly spent in endeavouring to secure the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts, and in 1886 this object was attained. In the same year Stansfeld again became president of the local government board. He died on the 17th of February 1898.

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