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 622 APPENDIX D 1885. June 29. Sir Stafford Northcote, afterwards Earl of Iddes- leigh, till Feb. 1886C) 1886. Aug. 9. Robert (Gascoyne-Cecil), Marquess of Salisbury, till Jan. i887() 1894. Mar. 15. Archibald (Primrose), Earl of Rosebery, till July 1895 LORDS PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL 1529/30. Charles (Brandon), Duke of Suffolk, till his death 14 Aug. 1 545 1545/6. Jan. "William (Paulet), Lord St. John, afterwards Mar- quess of Winchester 1549/50. Feb. John (Dudley), Earl of Warwick, afterwards Duke of Northumberland, till July 1553 1 62 1. Sep. Henry (Montagu), Viscount Mandeville after- wards Earl of Manchester 1628. July. James (Ley), Earl of Marlborough 1628. Dec. 14. Edward, Viscount Conway, till his death 3 Jan. 1630/1 1679. Apr. 21. Anthony (Ashley-Cooper), Earl of Shaftesbury ('^) 1679. Oct. 24. John (Robartes), Earl of Radnor 1684. Aug. 24. Laurence (Hyde), Earl of Rochester 1684/5. Feb. 18. George (Saville), Marquess of Halifax () He was not Prime Minister. C') Although he resigned the Treasury in 1887 he remained Prime Minister till Aug. 1892. (<=) Doyle (without giving any authority) dates Suffolk's Presidency from 1530. It is worthy of notice that Suffolk and his immediate successors held the Presidency together with the office of" Great Master" (equivalent to Lord Steward of the House- hold), vacating both at the same time. Suffolk appears as " Great Master " under date 13 Apr. 1540 in 'Journah of the House of Lords, vol. i, p. 150, and as President and "Great Master" in the Privy Council Register for 10 Aug. 154O; he had probably succeeded George (Talbot), Earl of Shrewsbury, who died 26 July 1538, in the Household office, and possibly Shrewsbury had also held the Presidency of the Council, {ex inform, the Rev. A. B. Beaven). (^) The office does not appear to have been permanently established until the formation of the new Privy Council in Apr. 1679: it was certainly vacant from the death of Conway until Shaftesbury's appointment, a period of 48 years. It had previously been suspended from the accession of Mary in 1553 until its revival by James I in 1 62 1, when it was conferred upon Mandeville as a solace for being com- pelled to give up the High Treasurership and when as Gondomar remarked, no one knew what its duties were. (Gardiner's History of England 1 603-1642, vol. ix, p. 227; ex inform, the Rev. A. B. Beaven),