Broderick : William St. John Fremantle (1856-1942), eldest son of 3rd Viscount Middleton, made 1st Earl of Middleton: educated at Eton & Balliol College, Oxford, president of Oxford Union Society: M.P. for West Surrey 1880-5 & for Guildford Division of Surrey 1885 onwards: Financial Secretary to War Office 1886-92: Under Secretary for War 1885-95 & Secretary 1900-03: Privy Councillor 1897 & Justice of the Peace: Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1898-1900: Secretary of State for India 1903, supported Earl Kitchener (q.v.) against Baron (Lord) Curzon, leading to the latter’s resignation in 1905. [Buckland]
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