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A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3 (1911), pp. 374-375. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42989.

http://wanborough.ukuhost.co.uk/PROmt6-554-4.htm Board of Trade Railway Department R7797 Registered File 9th September 1891 Wanborough New Station

Includes letter signed Algernon WEST 23 July 1891to the Board of Trade re a station inspection "as its opening will be of the greatest convenience to me in August.".

Letter from Traffic superintendents Office 27th July 1891"I am in no hurry to open Wanborough Station but Sir Algernon West who as far as I know is the only person interested in the question is continually asking when it will open…."

Includes plan of signalling for new station.

Books

Sir Charles Wood's Administration of Indian Affairs from 1859 to 1866. Smith, Elder, & Co. London, 1867.

Recollections: 1832 to 1886 (2 vols.) Smith, Elder, & Co. London, 1899.

Memoir of Sir Henry Keppel, G.C.B., Admiral of the Fleet. Smith, Elder & Co. London, 1905.

One City and Many Men. Smith, Elder, & Co. London, 1908.

Contemporary Portraits: Men of My Day in Public Life. T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. London, 1920.

Political England: A chronicle of the Nineteenth Century, Told in a Letter to Miss Margot Tennant. T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. London, 1922.

Private diaries of the Rt Hon Sir Algernon West GCB. Edited by Horace D. Hutchinson. John Murray. London, 1922.

http://www.thegoodmoveguide.com/Locations/Surrey/Boroughs/Guildford/Guides/villages/wanborough.htm

Gladstone wrote his farewell speech (his second administration) from the Manor House, Wanborough. 17th c. Rose-coloured brick. Wanborough station about a mile away.

http://normandyhistorians.guildford-surrey.co.uk/station.html Story of Wanborough station.

Timeline April 4, 1832. Born

1850. Matriculates at Christ Church, Oxford

end of April, 1851. Leaves Oxford, enters Income Tax office as temporary clerk.

1852. Advances to junior clerk in Admiralty.

1854. Elected to membership of Brooks's Club. Also later a member of Pratt's.

December 12, 1854. Sent by Lord Ebury to report on administration of funds raised for troops in Crimea. Returned February, 1853.

1855. Moved to Office of Secretary of First Lord of Admiralty. (The incumbent found the recently extended hours of 10-6 almost more than he could bear!)

Sept. 1855. Sets out for holiday in Scandinavia.

August 12, 1858. Married Mary Barrington, daughter of the Hon. George and Lady Caroline Barrington. Her father was a Lord of the Admiralty, mother was a friend of the Queen.

1858-1862(at least). Lived at Kensington Palace. Wife given apartment by Queen.

Nov. 6, 1859. Son Horace Born

Feb. 1861. Was persuaded to become Captain Commandant of the Kensington Volunteers.

June 1861 to 1866. Appointed Private Secretary to Sir Charles Wood, (later Viscount Halifax) Secretary of State for India, under whom he'd worked at the Admiralty.

July 18, 1861. Son Reginald Jervoise born.

24 July, 1862. Daughter Constance Mary West born.

November 1863. Son Gilbert Richard born.(Distinguished officer in Navy; died 1892.)

August 1866. Son Augustus William born.

1867. Appointed Deputy Director of Indian Military Funds

1867. Family moves to 10 Downing Street.

November 1868. Appointed Gentlemen Usher of the Privy Chamber.

December 1868 to 1872. Appointed Gladstone's Personal Private Secretary.

December 6, 1870. Mother dies

1872. Appointed Commissioner of Inland Revenue.

1880. Suggests abolition of malt tax, removing a long-standing grievance of farmers. It was replaced by a tax on beer.

1883. Gladstone takes him on cruise around North Sea and to Copenhagen in yacht Pembroke Castle. Negotiates with Alfred Tennyson to persuade him to accept peerage.

1881. Appointed Chairman of Inland Revenue Board.

June 1885. Gladstone loses election. Replaced by Tory minority, which falls in December.

January 1886. Gladstone's second government takes office.

30 July 1886. Made Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath for abolition of Malt Tax.

1886. Second Gladstone gov't falls. Gladstone writes farewell speech at Wanborough Manor House.

1891. Wanborough station opened.

1892. Retires from Civil Service

1892 to 1894. Becomes Private Secretary to Gladstone again, in his last (fourth) administration.

1894. Gladstone's government falls. Retires from politics.

1902. Made Privy Councillor.

26 June, 1902. Raised to GCB.

21 March, 1921. Dies in London.

11 May, 1921. Son Reginald dies.

Tennyson initially declined a baronetcy in 1865 and 1868 (when tendered by Disraeli), finally accepting a peerage in 1883 at Gladstone's earnest solicitation. He took his seat in the House of Lords on 11 March 1884.[3]