Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet
Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet, was a Radical British politician, who served in the coalition cabinet of The Earl of Aberdeen from 1853 until his death in 1855 as First Commissioner of Works and then Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Portrait by John Watson Gordon, 1854
Funerary monument, Kensal Green Cemetery, London
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen,, styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British statesman, diplomat and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite politician and specialist in foreign affairs. He served as Prime Minister from 1852 until 1855 in a coalition between the Whigs and Peelites, with Radical and Irish support. The Aberdeen ministry was filled with powerful and talented politicians, whom Aberdeen was largely unable to control and direct. Despite his trying to avoid this happening, it took Britain into the Crimean War, and fell when its conduct became unpopular, after which Aberdeen retired from politics.
Lord Aberdeen in July 1860
The Earl of Aberdeen by Thomas Lawrence in 1829
Lord Aberdeen c. 1847 by John Partridge
Aberdeen in the 1850s