Walter Northcote, 2nd Earl of Iddesleigh
English landowner, peer, civil servant, and author
About Walter Northcote, 2nd Earl of Iddesleigh
Lived 1845 – 1927 (aged 81–82). Walter Northcote, 2nd Earl of Iddesleigh was a British politician.
Walter Stafford Northcote, 2nd Earl of Iddesleigh CB (7 August 1845 – 26 May 1927) was an English landowner, peer, civil servant, and author, a member of the House of Lords from 1887 until his death.
Life and career The son of Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh and Cecilia Frances Farrer, Northcote was Commissioner, deputy-chairman, and chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue between 1877 and 1892. In 1887 he succeeded his father in the recently created peerages of Viscount Saint Cyres and Earl of Iddesleigh. In his youth his was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford.
Walter worked and promoted from commissioner in 1877 to become department chairman of the Inland Revenue in 1886, then chairman from 1892.
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English landowner, peer, civil servant, and author
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