Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton

The Right Honourable The Viscount Wolverhampton GCSI PC
Secretary of State for India
In office 10 March 1894 – 21 June 1895
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	The Earl of Rosebery
Preceded by	The Earl of Kimberley
Succeeded by	Lord George Hamilton
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In office 10 December 1905 – 13 October 1908
Monarch	Edward VII
Prime Minister	Henry Campbell-Bannerman H. H. Asquith
Preceded by	Sir William Walrond, Bt
Succeeded by	The Lord Fitzmaurice
Lord President of the Council
In office 13 October 1908 – 16 June 1910
Monarchs	Edward VII George V
Prime Minister	H. H. Asquith
Preceded by	The Lord Tweedmouth
Succeeded by	The Lord Beauchamp
Personal details
Born	(1830-05-16)16 May 1830 Sunderland, County Durham. England
Died	25 February 1911(1911-02-25) (aged 80) Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England
Political party	Liberal
Spouse	Ellen Thorneycroft
Children	Ellen, Edith, and Henry

Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton, GCSI, PC (16 May 1830 – 25 February 1911) 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.^[1]