The Henson Journals

Lord Castlereagh, 7th marquess of Londonderry, Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart

Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest-Stewart (1878-1949; ODNB), Lord Castlereagh 1884-1915, then 7th marquess of Londonderry, inheriting large landed properties in Co. Durham, Northern Ireland and Wales, and Durham coal mines; MP (U) Maidstone, 1906-15; under-secretary, war office, 1920-1; minister of education, Northern Ireland, 1921-6; 1st commissioner of works, 1928-9, 1931; secretary of state for air, 1931-5; leader, house of lords, 1935; chancellor, University of Durham, 1931-49; strong and controversial advocate of British friendship with Nazi Germany. See also Volume 60, 65.

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See also Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th marquess of Londonderry, Charles Stewart; Vane-Tempest-Stewart [née Chaplin], Lady Castlereagh, marchioness of Londonderry, Edith Helen