Earl Archibald Acheson

1776 - 1849  (72 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 37 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Archibald Acheson
  Prefix	Earl
  Birth	1 Aug 1776
  Gender	Male
  Death	27 Mar 1849	Market Hill
  nr Armagh
  Siblings	1 Sibling
  + 1. Earl Archibald Acheson,   b. 1 Aug 1776   d. 27 Mar 1849, Market Hill  (Age 72 years) ▻ Mary Sparrow,  m. 20 Jul 1805   2. Mary Acheson   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ William Edward Cavendish-Bentinck
  Person ID	I271403	Geneagraphie
  Links To	This person is also Archibald Acheson at Wikipedia
  Last Modified	8 Sep 2010

  
  

  Father	Earl Arthur Acheson,   b. Abt 1742   d. 14 Jan 1807 (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Millicent Pole   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	1774
  Family ID	F110241	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Sparrow,   b. 14 Apr 1777   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	20 Jul 1805	London, Middlesex, England
  Children	+ 1. Earl Archibald Acheson,   b. 20 Aug 1806, Portland Place, London, Middlesex, England d. 15 Jun 1864, Midx. (Age 57 years) + 2. Mary Acheson   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F110240	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Jul 2006

  
  

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• Notes

  2nd Earl of Gosford styled The Honourable from 1790 to 1806 and then Lord Acheson to 1807 A British politician who served as Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada and Governor General of British North America in the 19th century Acheson sat in the Irish House of Commons for Armagh County from 1798 until the Act of Union in 1801. Subsequently he was a Member of the British House of Commons representing Armagh to 1807, when he succeeded to his father's Irish titles as Earl of Gosford. He entered the British House of Lords in 1811 upon being elected a representative peer. In 1835 he became Governor General of British North America (also Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada), and commissioner in the Royal Commission for the Investigation of all Grievances Affecting His Majesty's Subjects of Lower Canada. He was instructed to appease the reformists, led by Louis-Joseph Papineau, without giving them any real power. Gosford attempted to distance himself from his predecessor, Lord Aylmer, who had exacerbated the hostility of French-Canadians to the British administration. Gosford officially established the Diocese of Montreal in 1836, though it had been unofficially created a few years before. In August of that year Gosford dissolved the Legislative Assembly when they refused to pass his budget. In November, Lord Gosford learned of the planned Lower Canada Rebellion and had many of Papineau's followers arrested, although Papineau himself escaped to the United States. The next month, he issued a reward for the capture of Papineau, and declared martial law in Lower Canada. Lord Gosford resigned in November 1837 and returned to Britain the next year. His eventual successor, Lord Durham, implemented the Union Act in 1840 (which Lord Gosford unsuccessfully argued against).