3-043-792 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Viscount Monck, seconder of the address in the House of Lords, 1869. Engraving from a photograph by John Watkins. '...Charles Stanley Monck, fourth Viscount Monck in the Peerage of Ireland, and first Baron Monck in the Peerage of the United Kingdom...was called to the Bar in Ireland in 1841, and succeeded his father in 1849. Having unsuccessfully contested the county of Wicklow in 1848, he was, in July, 1852, elected member for Portsmouth, for which borough he sat until the general election of 1857, when he was defeated. He was a Lord of the Treasury from March, 1855, to 1858 (in Lord Palmerston's first Ministry), and was an active and much esteemed member of the Government whipping-in staff...in 1861 he was appointed Governor-General of Canada - a function which he discharged with so much tact and ability that on the creation of the new dominion of Canada he was requested to continue in that post, though his time of service had more than expired...As might have been expected, his speech in seconding the Address was one of weight and importance, and was specially illustrated by his experience as a statesman and an administrator'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.