Gerard James Noel PC, DL, JP (28 August 1823 – 19 May 1911), styled The Honourable Gerard Noel from birth, was a British Conservative politician.

Early life

Noel was the eldest son of Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough and, his third wife, Arabella, daughter of Sir James Hamlyn-Williams, 2nd Baronet. From his father's second marriage to Elizabeth Grey (a second daughter of Sir George Grey, 1st Baronet), he had an elder half-brother

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, who married Lady Ida Harriet Augusta (a daughter of

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and Elizabeth FitzClarence, an illegitimate daughter of King William IV) who succeeded their father as the 2nd Earl of Gainsborough. From his parents marriage, he had three siblings, Henry Lewis Noel (who married their cousin Emily Elizabeth Noel), Lady Mary Arabella Louisa Noel (the wife of

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), and Lady Catherine Hamilton Noel (the wife of

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). From his father's fourth marriage in 1833 to Lady Frances Jocelyn (the second daughter of

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), he had two younger half-siblings:

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(a Groom of the Privy Chamber) and Lady Victoria Noel (the wife of

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, the

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Career

Noel was elected

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for

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in 1847. He served under Lord Derby and then

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as a Lord of the Treasury from 1866 until 1868, and then briefly under Disraeli as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury between November 1868 and the fall of the Conservative government in December of the same year. After the Conservatives returned to power in 1874 he was sworn of the

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. From 1876 until 1880 Noel served under Disraeli (then known as the Earl of Beaconsfield) as First Commissioner of Works. In 1883 he resigned from his seat in parliament through appointment as

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. Apart from his political career Noel was also a Captain in the

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and a Deputy Lieutenant and

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for

Personal life

On 30 June 1863, Noel was married to Lady Augusta Mary, the second daughter of Lady Lucy Eleanor Sherard (eldest daughter of Philip Sherard, 5th Earl of Harborough) and Col.

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of Barleythorpe Hall (the second son of William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale). She was the also sister of

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. At his home,

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, in Oakham,

, he developed a fine garden which employed 15 gardeners. Together, they were the parents of: * Gerard Cecil Noel (1864–1925), who married his cousin Madeline Edith Clifton, a daughter of Thomas Henry Clifton, MP for North Lancashire (a son of

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and grandson of Henry Lowther, MP for

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), and Madeline Diana Elizabeth Agnew (a daughter of Sir Andrew Agnew, Bt, MP for

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), in 1897. * Henry Cecil Noel (1868–1931), who married Frances Mary Cockerell, a daughter of Frederick Pepys Cockerell, in 1902. After their divorce in 1926, he married, secondly, Janet Muriel Baird, daughter of William Baird (a son of William Baird MP for Falkirk Burghs) and Caroline Muriel Burn-Callander (a descendant of the 8th Earl of Coventry), in August 1926. Noel died at Oakham in May 1911, aged 87. Augusta Noel died in January 1916.

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