Background
Norton was the eldest son of Charles Clement Adderley (d 1818), offspring of an old Staffordshire family, and his wife, daughter of Sir Edmund Cradock-Hartopp, 1st Baronet.
Norton was the eldest son of Charles Clement Adderley (d 1818), offspring of an old Staffordshire family, and his wife, daughter of Sir Edmund Cradock-Hartopp, 1st Baronet.
He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1838.
Charles Bowyer Adderley, 1st Baron Norton, Personal Computer (2 August 1814 – 28 March 1905) was a British Conservative politician. Adderley inherited Hams Hall, Warwickshire, and the valuable estates of his great-uncle, Charles Bowyer Adderley, in 1826. Adderley"s ministerial career began in 1858, when he was appointed President of the Board of Health and Vice-President of the Committee of the Council on Education in Lord Derby"s short ministry.
Again under Lord Derby he was Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1866 to 1868, being in charge of the act which called the Dominion of Canada into being, and from 1874 to 1878 he was President of the Board of Trade.
He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1858 and in 1878 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Norton, of Norton-on-the-Moors in the County of Stafford. Norton was a strong churchman and especially interested in education and the colonies.
In 1852/53, he paid ₤500 towards the costs of the closure of the association. Another son, the Honorary
Adderley Street is a famous street in Cape Town, South Africa, considered the main street of the central business district.
In 1850, the Mayor of Cape Town, Hercules Jarvis, named it to honour Adderley who had fought successfully against a proposal to make Cape Town into a penal colony. Adderley must be one of the few people to have two streets named after him in a single town: Adderley Street and Norton Street, both in Uppingham, Rutland where he owned property. In Birmingham, Adderley donated 8 acres (0032 km2) of land to create Adderley Park, which he managed privately from 1855 to 1864.
He also donated land for the construction of Street Saviour"s Church, Street Peter"s College, Saltley and the reformatory on the Fordrough, later called Norton Boys" Home.
In 1879 Lord Norton sold Whitacre Lodge to the city for the construction of the 80 acres (032 km2) Shustoke Reservoir, the largest single source of water for Birmingham until the Elan/Claerwen scheme was completed. Adderley Head is a headland between Lyttelton Harbour and Portuguese Levy that is named for him.
James Granville Adderley, vicar of Saltley, Birmingham, became well known as an advocate of Christian socialism.
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In 1841, Norton entered the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for North Staffordshire, retaining his seat until 1878, when he was created Baron Norton.
Adderley joined the Canterbury Association on 27 March 1848 and was a member of the management committee from the beginning.