George Shaw Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley


George John ShawLefevre, 1st Baron Eversley PC, DL was a British Liberal Party politician. In a ministerial career that spanned thirty years, he was twice First Commissioner of Works and also served as Postmaster General and President of the Local Government Board.

Eversley was the only son of Sir John ShawLefevre and Rachel Emily, daughter of Ichabod Wright. He was born in Battersea, and was the nephew of Charles ShawLefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley, Speaker of the House of Commons. He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1855.

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