Charles Wood, Lord Halifax, 1st Viscount Halifax
1800–85
Politician. Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1846. President of the Board of Control, 1852. First lord of the Admiralty, 1855. Secretary of state for India, 1859–66. Lord privy seal in William Ewart Gladstone’s cabinet, 1870–4. Created 1st Viscount Halifax in 1866.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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