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9 min read. Robert Banks Jenkinson, Lord Liverpool is not generally viewed as one of Britain’s greatest prime ministers – Disraeli’s sneer at him as the “Arch-mediocrity” in his 1844 novel ‘Coningsby’ is only too well remembered. Yet, as my new book ‘Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister’ shows, when you look at what he achieved ...
13 de may. de 2019 · Unfairly Ignored, and Even More Unfairly Derided. Few now recall the contribution of Robert Jenkinson, Second Earl of Liverpool, made to that remarkably successful rearguard action. This is very curious. Lord Liverpool was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for 15 years, from 1812 to 1827. No one has held that office for longer since.
Less cynical than Tallyrand, more imaginative than Metternich, as creative as Guizot, Lord Liverpool was one of the great European conservatives of his age. He served as prime minister for the longest continuous term in nineteenth-century Britain and presided over the triumphant years of the Napoleonic War, the strife-torn era of the "Peterloo" massacre, and the founding of the great liberal ...
Robert Banks Jenkinson (1770-1828) Second Earl of Liverpool from 1808. Prime Minister, 1812-27. Foreign Secretary, 1801-4. Home Secretary, 1804-6, 1807-9. Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, 1809-12.
Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, was a British statesman and both the youngest and longest-serving Prime Minister (1812–27) since 1806. Background The eldest son of Charles Jenkinson, Robert Jenkinson was born in London on June 7, 1770.
This title provides a biography of the longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, who held the post from 1812 to 1827. He steered Britain through the end of the Napoleonic Wars, through periods of unrest through Catholic emancipation.
Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of (1770–1828) in A Dictionary of World History (2) Length: 136 words in World Encyclopedia Length: 79 words
