Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton

Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton, was a British solicitor and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1908 when he was raised to the peerage. A member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, he was the first solicitor and the first Methodist to enter the Cabinet or to be raised to the peerage.

Occupation

politician, statistician

Position held

Secretary of State for India, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Lord President of the Council, Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Citizenship

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Born

May 16, 1830

Died

February 25, 1911