deaths
William Edward Forster, English businessman, philanthropist, and politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (born 1818)
Related Wikipedia articles
William Edward Forster
19th-century British politician, industrialist and philanthropist (1818–1886)
William Edward Forster, PC, FRS was an English industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party statesman. As a minister in Gladstone's government, he steered through the Elementary Education Act 1870 which was the foundation of compulsory national free education for children in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Chief Secretary for Ireland
Important political office in the British administration of Ireland (1566–1922)
The Chief Secretary for Ireland was a key political office in the British administration in Ireland. Nominally subordinate to the Lord Lieutenant, and officially the "Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant", from the early 19th century until the end of British rule he was…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)