CAMPBELL
,
FREDERICK ARCHIBALD VAUGHAN
,
viscount Emlyn (1847-1898), earl Cawdor (1898-1911)
;
b.
13 Feb. 1847
, eldest son of the
2nd earl Cawdor
of
Golden Grove, Carms.
Educated at
Eton
and
Christ Church
,
Oxford
, he was
Conservative M.P.
for
Carmarthenshire
,
1874-85
, but unsuccessfully contested
West Carmarthenshire
,
1885
,
south Manchester
,
1892
, and the
Cricklade division
of
Wiltshire
,
1898
. In
1880
, he was appointed a
member of the departmental committee of inquiry into the
state of intermediate and higher education in Wales
(
Aberdare Committee
), the report of which, published
18 Aug. 1881
, led to the
Welsh Intermediate Education Act
,
1889
, and the establishment of the
University Colleges of Cardiff
(
1883
) and
Bangor
(
1884
). He was appointed
ecclesiastical commissioner
,
1880
;
honorary commissioner in lunacy
,
1886-93
; and
chairman
of the
Great Western Railway
,
1895-1905
. He succeeded as
3rd earl Cawdor
on the death of his father,
1898
. In
1905 (March-Nov.)
he was
First Lord of the Admiralty
in the
Balfour Government
. He played a leading part in opposition to the ‘
Lloyd George
budget’ of
1909
and in
1910
was concerned in discussions for the reform of the
House of Lords
. His interests included the
Carmarthenshire Militia
, which he commanded for ten years, and the
Royal Agricultural Society
of which he was
president
in
1901
. He d.
8 Feb. 1911
.
Bibliography:
-
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
, Second Supplement;;
-
W. R. Williams
,
The History of the Parliamentary
Representation of Wales
, 1895
, 50;
-
W. C. Davies
and
W. L. Jones
,
The History of the University of
Wales
a
;
-
T. Gwynn Jones
,
Cofiant Thomas Gee
, Denbigh, 1913
.
Author:
Professor Glyn Roberts, M.A., (1904-1962), Bangor
