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Fowler was born on May 16, 1830 in Sunderland, the son of Rev, Joseph Fowler.
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Municipal Finance and Municipal Enterprise: The Annual Address (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Municipal Finance and Municipal Enterprise: The Annual Address There are undertakings which require parliamentary sanction and legislative powers for their establishment and management. N 0 individual trader, no private company, can establish for him self or themselves the right to compulsorily acquire other people's property, or to use for their own advantage the roads and high ways, which belong to the public. This country has adopted in the United Kingdom the principle that the railways of the country should be provided by private capital, and conducted by private management under public control. In India and in some of the Colonies railways are either partially or altogether managed by the Government. In addition to railways Parliament has vested large powers in joint stock undertakings for the construo tion and management of waterworks, gasworks, and similar undertakings. The legislature has accompanied the grant of these powers with elaborate conditions, for public control for securing the public convenience, for guarding the public safety, and for enabling the public on certain terms and under certain conditions to compulsorily acquire these undertakings. So far as railways are concerned, I submit, that if the railways of this country are contrasted with what are called the State railways of many foreign countries, the contrast is favourable to the superiority of the management of our railway system. There may be some points on which State control results in a more economical mode of transport. But I am satisfied that no government department could manage the railway system of this country with the efficiency, the safety, and the speed which our great railway companies supply. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Henry Hartley Fowler
Edit ProfileEducation
He was educated at Woodhouse Grove School, Apperley Bridge, Bradford (1840–42) and later at St. Saviour's Grammar School, Southwark.
Career
He became a prosperous solicitor in Wolverhampton, and coming of a Liberal nonconformist family took a prominent part in politics.
In 1880 he was elected Liberal member of parliament for Wolverhampton, and was re-elected for the east division at successive contests, In 1884-1885 he was under-secretary for the Home Office, and in 1886 financial secretary to the treasury.
In Mr Gladstone's 1892-1894 ministry he was president of the local government board, and in Lord Rosebery's cabinet, 1894-1895, secretary of state for India. In these and the succeeding years of opposition he was recognized as a sound economist and a sober administrator, as well as a universally respected representative of nonconformist views.
In Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet, 1905-1908, he was chancellor of the duchy cf Lancaster, and he retained this office in Mr Asquith's ministry, but was transferred to the House of Lords with a viscountcy (April 1908). He retired in 1910.
Lord Wolverhampton died in February 1911, aged 80.
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Municipal Finance and Municipal Enterprise: The Annual Address (Classic Reprint)
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Religion
A member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, he was the first solicitor and the first Methodist to enter the Cabinet or to be raised to the peerage.
Membership
He was a member of the Law Society.
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
According to his private secretary, however, he did not have “the patience to suffer Radical and Labour members gladly. ”
Connections
Fowler married Ellen Thorneycroft, daughter of ironmaster and first Mayor of Wolverhampton, George Benjamin Thorneycroft, in 1857. They had a son and two daughters.
Their son Henry succeeded to the viscountcy. Their daughters were the authors the Hon. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler and the Hon. Edith Henrietta Fowler.
His daughter, Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, who married Mr A. L. Felkin in 1903, became well known as a novelist with her Concerning Isabel Carnaby (1898) and other books. Tasmanian Wombat (Phascolomys ursinus).
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