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'I cannot but wish that our nation abounded with more frequent examples of persons, of like rank and ability with your lordship, equally desirious of promoting . . . every other branch of natural s...
Charles Watson-Wentworth, who twice served as Prime Minister — from 13 July 1765 to 30 July 1766 and from 27 March to 1 July 1782 — was born on 13 May 1730 (Old Style), the fifth son and eighth child in a family of ten. He was the only son to survive childhood. He was brought up at the family home of Wentworth Woodhouse near Rotherham ...
Rockingham was born Charles Watson-Wentworth in May 1730 into an aristocratic family (the first Prime Minister to have been born at a time when the office existed). He was educated at Westminster School, briefly serving as a volunteer during the 1745 Jacobite rising. After that, Rockingham set out on the customary Grand Tour of Europe.
Search for: '2nd marquis of Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth' in Oxford Reference ». (1730–82)British statesman and leader of the political faction known as the Rockingham Whigs. Most of his supporters were originally followers of the Duke of Newcastle, but from the mid-1760s they transferred their allegiance to Rockingham.
Charles Watson-Wentworth, Second Marquis of Rockingham (1730-82) c.1768-86 Description When George III was asked by Lord Eglinton to sit for the most fashionable portrait painter of the day, Joshua Reynolds, he replied: ‘Mr Ramsay is my painter, my Lord.’
Biography: Charles Watson-Wentworth, commonly known as the Marquess of Rockingham, was a British statesman and two-time Prime Minister in the mid-18th century. He first served as Prime Minister from 1765 to 1766 and then again in 1782, though his second term was cut short by his sudden death. Rockingham's political career was largely shaped by ...
Charles Watson-Wentworth (1730. május 13. – 1782. július 1.), Rockingham második őrgrófja, a Térdszalagrend lovagja, királyi titkos tanácsos, whig párti brit politikus, miniszterelnök. Élete során mindössze két hivatalt töltött be (a másik a Lordok Háza elnöksége volt), de másfél éves vezetése során nagy befolyással rendelkezett.
