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Arthur Otway
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Sir Arthur John Otway, PC, 1st Bt (August 1822–December 1891) was the Member of Parliament for Stafford from 1852 to 1857.
Biography
He was the fourth son of Admiral Sir Robert Otway, G.C.B., and was born in Edinburgh in August 1822. His first profession, after a course of education at Sandhurst and in Germany, was the Army, which he entered as an ensign of the 51st Regiment in 1839. With this regiment he served for about seven years; and then, betaking himself to the Middle Temple, he was called to the Bar in 1850. Soon afterwards he was enabled to enter public life as Liberal member for Stafford, which borough he represented from 1852 to 1857; and in after years he sat, at one time for Chatham, and subsequently for Rochester.
He had been in the House for 16 years when he was appointed at the end of 1868 to the most important of the subordinate posts in Gladstone's first Government, and was for the next three years Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. His chief was Lord Clarendon, then filling for the fourth time the office of Secretary of State. Lord Clarendon, however, died on the very eve of the Franco-Prussian War, Lord Granville succeeding him, and the eventful months that followed were full of work and anxiety for the representatives of the Foreign Office in both houses. Sir Arthur Otway held no other Ministerial post, but remained a private member of the House until his tenure, from 1883 to 1885, of the post of Chairman of Ways and Means – that is, of Committees of the whole House. In 1885 he retired from Parliament. He had considerable Parliamentary ability, but in those days obstruction and other circumstances rendered the Chairman's duties extremely burdensome, especially to a man who had already given the best part of his life to Parliament.
Otway succeeded his brother as third baronet in 1881, and became a Privy Council of the United KingdomPrivy Councillor in 1885. He married in 1851 Henrietta Langham, daughter of Sir James Langham, who died in 1909. Their only son died unmarried in 1884, and the baronetcy becomes extinct.
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