Diplomatic and Political Career
Northcote was secretary to the British delegation negotiating the Alabama Claims between 1871 and 1873. From 1877 to 1880 he was private secretary to his father, then Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 1880 he was elected to the House of Commons as MP for Exeter, a seat he held until 1899. He served under Lord Salisbury as Financial Secretary to the War Office between 1885 and 1886 and as Surveyor-General of the Ordnance between 1886 and 1888, when that office was abolished. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1880 and created a Baronet, of Seamore Place in the Parish of St George, Hanover Square, in the County of Middlesex, in 1887. In 1899 he was appointed Governor of Bombay, through the influence of his father-in-law, Lord Mount Stephen. In early 1900 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Northcote, of the City and County of the City of Exeter, and appointed a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (GCIE).
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