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 | | Stafford Henry Northcote (1818-1887), 1st Earl of Iddesleigh, statesman, was born in London, the eldest son of Henry Stafford Northcote (1792-1851), a younger son of the Northcote family of Upton Pyne, near Exeter, Devon, baronets. |
 | | In 1853, he served on a commission for reforming the Board of Trade and drew up a report on the permanent civil service, recommending that a system of examination should be employed to limit entry. |
 | | In addition there are pamphlets, addresses, typed copies of letters to Northcote, cartoons from magazines, newspaper cuttings, appreciations of Northcote, verses by Northcote, notes for Lord Iddesleigh's biography by T.H. Farrer, anecdotes and other miscellanea. |
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