About William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly
Lived 1812 – 1894 (aged 81). William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly was a British politician.
William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly, PC (21 September 1812 – 20 April 1894) was an Anglo-Irish landowner and Liberal politician. He held a number of ministerial positions between 1852 and 1873, notably as President of the Board of Health in 1857 and as Postmaster General between 1871 and 1873.
Background and education Monsell was born to William Monsell (1778–1822), of Tervoe, Clarina, County Limerick, He was briefly President of the Board of Health under Palmerston in 1857 and later served under Lord Russell as Paymaster General and Vice-President of the Board of Trade in 1866 and under William Ewart Gladstone as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies between 1868 and 1871 and as Postmaster-General between January 1871 and November 1873.
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