Antique 1800s Cabinet Card Photo Charles Ritchie 1st Baron of Dundee

Description: Here is a great antique cabinet card photo showing Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron of Dundee. Taken by Russell & Sons, photographers to the Queen. Also stamped on back Charles L. Ritzmann importer, New York. Shipping will be FREE inside the US. Thanks Charles Thomson Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee, PC (19 November 1838 – 9 January 1906) was a British businessman and Conservativepolitician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 until 1905 when he was raised to the peerage. He served as Home Secretary from 1900 to 1902 and as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1902 to 1903. Ritchie was born at Dundee, Scotland, the third son of William Ritchie, of Rockhill near Broughty Ferry in Forfarshire, head of the firm of William Ritchie & Sons, of London and Dundee, East India merchants, jute spinners and manufacturers. The Ritchie family had long been connected with the town of Dundee. His elder brother James Ritchie was Lord Mayor of London from 1903 to 1904 and was created a Baronet in 1903 (a title which became extinct on his death; see Ritchie Baronets). Ritchie was educated at the City of London School, after which he went into business.He married Margaret Ower, daughter of Thomas Ower of Perth, on 7 December 1858.In 1874 was returned to parliament as Conservative member for the Tower Hamlets. In 1885 he was made secretary to the Admiralty, and from 1886 to 1892 was President of the Local Government Board in Lord Salisbury's second administration, sitting as member for St George in the East. He was responsible for the Local Government Act 1888, instituting county councils; and a large section of the Conservative party always owed him a grudge for having originated the London County Council.In Lord Salisbury's later ministries, as member for Croydon (1895–1906), he was President of the Board of Trade(1895–1900) and Home Secretary (1900–1902); and when Sir Michael Hicks-Beach retired in August 1902, he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in Balfour's cabinet.[1] In his earlier years he had been a fair-trader and he was strongly opposed to Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain's movement for a preferential tariff, leading to his sacking by Balfour in September 1903. Ritchie's son in law, the Scottish architect Mervyn McCartney, built a country house for Ritchie, Welders House, in the Buckinghamshire village of Jordans.[2]On 22 December 1905, he was created a peer as Baron Ritchie of Dundee, of Welders in the Parish of Chalfont St Giles in the County of Buckingham.[3] However, he was in ill-health, and died at Biarritz in January 1906. He is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, London.[4] He was succeeded in the title by his second but only surviving son, Charles. NOTE: I can ship photographs outside the United States for $1.50 each rather than paying the high price of the global shipping program. If you are outside the US and interested in a photo or photos, please let me know which ones and I'll correct the listing to reflect the shipping cost. Please wait for an invoice before payment is made. Thanks

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