Background
Noel was the son of Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough and his third wife, Arabella, daughter of Sir James Hamlyn-Williams, 2nd Baronet.
Noel was the son of Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough and his third wife, Arabella, daughter of Sir James Hamlyn-Williams, 2nd Baronet.
He served under Lord Derby and then Benjamin Disraeli as a Lord of the Treasury from 1866 until 1868 and then briefly under Disraeli as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury between November 1868 and the fall of the Conservative government in December of the same year. After the Conservatives returned to power in 1874 he was sworn of the Privy Council. From 1876 until 1880 Noel served under Disraeli (then known as the Earl of Beaconsfield) as First Commissioner of Works.
In 1883 he resigned from his seat in parliament through appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.
Apart from his political career Noel was also a Captain in the 11th Hussars and a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Rutland. Noel married Augusta Mary, daughter of Henry Cecil Lowther, on 30 June 1863.
At his home, Catmose, in Oakham, Rutland, he developed a fine garden which employed 15 gardeners. The range of trees in his arboretum was claimed to rival Kew Gardens.
Noel died in May 1911, aged 87.
Augusta Noel died in January 1916.
15th United Kingdom Parliament. 16th United Kingdom Parliament. 17th United Kingdom Parliament.
18th United Kingdom Parliament.
19th United Kingdom Parliament. 20th United Kingdom Parliament.
21st United Kingdom Parliament. 22nd United Kingdom Parliament]
Noel was elected Member of Parliament for Rutland in 1847.
Spouse 1863, Lady Augusta Mary Lowther, sister of 3rd Earl of Lonsdale, author of The Wise Manitoba of Sterncross.