Engraving by John Cochran after a portrait by C. A. Du Val.
President of the Poor Law Board
In office 9 July 1859 – 26 June 1866
Monarch
Victoria
Prime Minister
The Viscount Palmerston The Earl Russell
Preceded by
Thomas Milner Gibson
Succeeded by
Gathorne Hardy
Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South Wolverhampton (1835–1885)
In office 6 January 1835 – 16 January 1898
Monarchs
William IV Victoria
Preceded by
William Wolryche-Whitmore
Succeeded by
John Lloyd Gibbons
Personal details
Born
(1802-01-03)3 January 1802
Died
16 January 1898(1898-01-16) (aged 96)
Nationality
British
Political party
Liberal
Liberal Unionist
Parents
George Villiers
Theresa Parker
Alma mater
St John's College, Cambridge
Charles Pelham Villiers (3 January 1802 – 16 January 1898) was a British lawyer and politician from the aristocratic Villiers family. He sat in the House of Commons for 63 years, from 1835 to 1898, making him the longest-serving Member of Parliament (MP). He also holds the distinction of the oldest candidate to win a parliamentary seat, at 93. He was a radical and reformer who often collaborated with John Bright and had a noteworthy effect in the leadership of the Anti-Corn Law League, until its repeal in 1846. Lord Palmerston appointed him to the cabinet as president of the Poor-Law Board in 1859. His Public Works (Manufacturing Districts) Act of 1863 opened job-creating schemes in public health projects. He progressed numerous other reforms, most notably the Metropolitan Poor Act of 1867. Florence Nightingale helped him formulate the reform, in particular, ensure professionalisation of nursing as part of the poor law regime, the workhouses of which erected public infirmaries under an Act of the same year. His political importance was overshadowed by his brother, the Earl of Clarendon, and undercut by the hostility of Gladstone.[1]
^A. C. Howe, "Villiers, Charles Pelham (1802–1898)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 retrieved 8 Nov 2017.
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