Charles Bowyer Adderley, Vanity Fair, 1892-09-17

Charles Bowyer Adderley, 1st Baron Norton (2 August 181428 March 1905) was a British

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politician.

Background and education

Charles Bowyer Adderley was the eldest son of Charles Clement Adderley (d. 1818), offspring of an old

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family, and his wife, daughter of

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. Adderley inherited

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, and the valuable estates of his great-uncle, Charles Bowyer Adderley, in 1826. He was educated at

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, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1838.

Political career

In 1841, Adderley entered the

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for

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, retaining his seat until 1878, when he was created

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. Adderley's ministerial career began in 1858, when he was appointed President of the Board of Health and

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's short ministry. Again under Lord Derby, he was

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from 1866 to 1868, being in charge of the act which created the

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, and from 1874 to 1878, he was

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. This cites: * W.S. Childe-Pemberton, ''The Life of Lord Norton'' (1909). He was sworn of the

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in 1858, was appointed a Knight Commander of the

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(KCMG) in the

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, and, in 1878, he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Norton, of Norton-on-the-Moors in the County of Stafford.''The London Gazette'', 16 April 1878
/ref> Norton was a strong churchman and especially interested in education and the colonies. He joined the

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on 27 March 1848 and was a member of the management committee from the beginning. In 1852/53, he paid £500 towards the costs of the closure of the association.

Family

In 1842 he married Julia Anne Eliza (1820–1887), oldest daughter of

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, by whom he had several sons. His eldest son Charles Leigh Adderley succeeded him in the barony. Another son, the Hon. James Granville Adderley,

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, became well known as an advocate of

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. His daughter Isabel married in 1876 Vauncey Harpur Crewe of Calke Abbey, later 10th Baronet.

Tributes

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is a famous street in

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, South Africa, considered the main street of the central business district. In 1850, the

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, Hercules Jarvis, named it to honour Adderley who had fought successfully against a proposal to make Cape Town into a penal colony. In Birmingham, Adderley donated of land to create

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, which he managed privately from 1855 to 1864. He also donated land for the construction of

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and the

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on the Fordrough, later called Norton Boys' Home. In 1879 Lord Norton sold Whitacre Lodge to the city for the construction of the

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, the largest single source of water for Birmingham until the Elan/Claerwen scheme was completed. In

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, Rutland, where he owned property, both Adderley Street and Norton Street are named after him. Adderley Head, a

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between

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and

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, near

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, is named after him.

Arms

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