1461 Armine Wodehouse

Constituency : Saffron  Walden  1900-01

Armine  took  over  from  Charles  Gold  at  Saffron  Walden.

Aemine  was a  younger  son  of  the Liberal  peer  Lord Kimberley. He  was  assistant  private  secretary  to his  father  as Colonial  then  India  Secretary  in  Gladstone's  second  ministry. He was  then  principal  private  secretary  to  him  as  India  Secretary  ( 1886   and  1892-94 )  and  Foreign  Secretary  ( 1894-5 ). In  1895  he  contested  the  Isle  of  Wight.

Armine's  only  contribution  to  Parliament  was  a  question  on  a  local  postal  matter.

Armine  was considered  a  talent  but  died aged  40  just  a  few  months  later.