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NORTHCOTE, Sir HENRY STAFFORD, Baron Northcote of Exeter (1846-1911), governor-general, was born on 18 November 1846 at Marylebone, London, second son of Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, later 1st earl of Iddesleigh, and his wife Cecilia Frances, née Farrer. Educated from 1858 at Eton, and from 1865 at Merton College, Oxford (B.A. 1869; M.A. 1873), he entered the Foreign Office by examination in 1868 as a clerk. He accompanied a mission to the United States of America to arrange the Alabama Treaty in 1871 and on 2 October 1873 married Alice, adopted daughter of the Canadian railroad tycoon Lord Mount Stephen. Northcote was private secretary to Lord Salisbury in 1876 and in 1877-80 to his father. Conservative member for Exeter in the House of Commons in 1880-99, he achieved minor office as financial secretary to the War Office and surveyor-general of ordnance. In 1899-1903 he was governor of Bombay. Appointed C.B. in 1880 and created baronet in 1887, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Northcote of Exeter in 1900.

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