J. T. Hibbert

Sir John Tomlinson Hibbert KCB PC JP DL (5 January 1824 – 7 November 1908) was a British barrister and Liberal politician.

Background and education

The eldest son of Elijah Hibbert and Betty Hilton, he was educated at Shrewsbury and St John's College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1849.

Hibbert was Member of Parliament for Oldham from 1862 to 1874, 1877 to 1886 and 1892 to 1895, when he lost his seat. He served under William Ewart Gladstone as Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board from 1872 to 1874 and again from 1880 to 1883, as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1883 to 1884, as Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1884 to 1885 and as Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty from February to July 1886 and under Gladstone and later Lord Rosebery as once again Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1892 to 1895. In 1886, he was sworn of the Privy Council.

Hibbert served as President of the second day of the second Co-operative Congress in 1870.

In 1889, Hibbert was elected as the first Chairman of the newly created Lancashire County Council. He was later President of the County Councils Association. In 1893 he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.

He received the honorary degree Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) from the Victoria University of Manchester in February 1902, in connection with the 50th jubilee celebrations of the establishment of the university.

Hibbert died in November 1908, aged 84. He is buried at St Paul's, Lindale, Cumbria.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byJohn Morgan Cobbett William Johnson Fox	Member of Parliament for Oldham 1862–1874 With: John Morgan Cobbett 1862–1865 John Platt 1865–1872 John Morgan Cobbett 1872–1874	Succeeded byJohn Morgan Cobbett Frederick Lowten Spinks
Preceded byJohn Morgan Cobbett Frederick Lowten Spinks	Member of Parliament for Oldham 1877–1886 With: Frederick Lowten Spinks 1877–1880 Edward Stanley 1880–1885 James Mackenzie Maclean 1885–1886	Succeeded byJames Mackenzie Maclean Elliott Lees
Preceded byJames Mackenzie Maclean Elliott Lees	Member of Parliament for Oldham 1892–1895 With: Joshua Milne Cheetham	Succeeded byRobert Ascroft James Francis Oswald
Political offices
New office	Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board 1872–1874	Succeeded byClare Sewell Read
Preceded byThomas Salt	Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board 1880–1883	Succeeded byGeorge W. E. Russell
Preceded byThe Earl of Rosebery	Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department 1883–1884	Succeeded byHenry Fowler
Preceded byLeonard Courtney	Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1884–1885	Succeeded bySir Henry Holland, Bt
Preceded byCharles Ritchie	Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty February–July 1886	Succeeded byArthur Forwood
Preceded byJohn Eldon Gorst	Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1892–1895	Succeeded byRobert William Hanbury