John Tomlinson Hibbert

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Sir John Tomlinson Hibbert (5 January 1824 – 7 November 1908) KCB PC JP DL DCL was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom.

The eldest son of Elijah Hibbert and Betty Hilton, he was educated at Shrewsbury and at St John's College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar, Inner Temple in 1849. He was Member of Parliament for Oldham from 1862 to 1874, 1877 to 1886 and 1892 to1895. He unsuccessfully contested the seat in 1895. Hibbert served in government as Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board from 1872-1874 and 1880-1883, as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1883-1884, as Secretary to the Admiralty in 1886 and as Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1892-1895. He was Chairman of Lancashire County Council and President of the County Councils Association. He served as President of the second day of the second Co-operative Congress in 1870.^[1]

He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1886 and knighted in 1893.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Morgan Cobbett William Johnson Fox	Member of Parliament for Oldham with John Morgan Cobbett 1862–1865 John Platt 1865–1872 John Morgan Cobbett 1872–1874 1862–1874	Succeeded by John Morgan Cobbett Frederick Lowten Spinks
Preceded by John Morgan Cobbett Frederick Lowten Spinks	Member of Parliament for Oldham with Frederick Lowten Spinks 1877–1880 Edward Stanley 1880–1885 James Mackenzie Maclean 1885–1886 1877–1886	Succeeded by James Mackenzie Maclean Elliott Lees
Preceded by James Mackenzie Maclean Elliott Lees	Member of Parliament for Oldham with Joshua Milne Cheetham 1892–1895	Succeeded by Robert Ascroft James Francis Oswald
Political offices
Preceded by New office	Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board 1872–1874	Succeeded by Clare Sewell Read
Preceded by Thomas Salt	Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board 1880–1883	Succeeded by George William Erskine Russell
Preceded by The Earl of Rosebery	Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department 1883–1884	Succeeded by Henry Hartley Fowler
Preceded by Leonard Courtney	Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1884–1885	Succeeded by Sir Henry Thurstan Holland
Preceded by New office	Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty 1886	Succeeded by Arthur Forwood
Preceded by John Eldon Gorst	Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1892–1895	Succeeded by Robert William Hanbury