Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne


Henry Charles Keith PettyFitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne KG GCSI GCMG GCIE PC was a British statesman who served successively as the fifth Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. He has the distinction of having held senior positions in both Liberal Party and Conservative Party governments.

The greatgrandson of the British Prime Minister Lord Shelburne , and the eldest son of Henry PettyFitzmaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne and his wife, Emily, 8th Lady Nairne, Henry Charles Keith PettyFitzmaurice was born in London in 1845. He held the courtesy title Viscount Clanmaurice from birth until 1863 and then the courtesy title Earl of Kerry until he succeeded to the marquessate in 1866. Upon his mothers death in 1895, he succeeded her as the 9th Lord Nairne in the Peerage of Scotland.

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