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Up for sale "British Conservative" James Milnes Gaskell Clipped Signature affixed to a 3X5 Card.
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James Milnes Gaskell (19 October 1810
– 5 February 1873) was a Milnes-Gaskell was the only child of Benjamin Gaskell (1781–1856) of
Thornes House, Wakefield, West Yorkshire and Clifton
Hall, Lancashire. He was born on 19 October 1810 and was educated
at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. His
political interest may have been influenced by meeting lifelong friend William Ewart Gladstone as
a school contemporary, and receiving visits during term from George Canning.[1] An uncle, Daniel Gaskell, also entered Parliament as at same general election as James. It was at Gaskell's
then home in Tilney Street, London, in 1834, that Gladstone met his future
wife, Catherine Glynne.
He
was M.P. for Wenlock in Shropshire from 1832 until retiring in 1868. He served as
a Lord of the Treasury from
1841 to 11 March 1846 under Sir Robert Peel's administration. In 1832 he married Mary
Wynn, daughter of the Rt Hon. Charles Williams-Wynn,
(also a Member of Parliament) and they had two sons and two daughters. One
son, Charles Milnes
Gaskell, also became a Member of Parliament, as a Liberal. It was from his
wife's cousin, Sir Watkin
Williams-Wynn, that Gaskell bought in 1857 the site of Wenlock
Priory, whose ruins he restored and whose Prior's Lodge he made into a family
home.
He
died at 28 Norfolk Street, Park Lane, London on 5 February 1873, aged
sixty-two, and was buried in the parish churchyard at Much Wenlock.
