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William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, PC (2 May 1737 – 7 May 1805; known as the Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history), was an Anglo-Irish Whig statesman who was the first home secretary in 1782 and then prime minister in 1782-83 during the final months of the American War ...
William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1er marqués de Lansdowne, (2 de mayo de 1737, Dublín-7 de mayo de 1805, Berkeley Square, Londres; conocido como el conde de Shelburne entre 1761 y 1784, título por el que se le conoce generalmente en la historia), fue un estadista whig británico nacido en Irlanda que fue el primer ministro del Interior en 1782 y ...
William was a soldier and Whig politician. He was Prime Minister from 1782-83 and created 1 st Marquess of Lansdowne in 1784. William created the 1 st Marquess of Lansdowne for negotiating peace with America at the end of the War of Independence. He was married twice and father to three children.
9 de may. de 2024 · William Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st marquess of Lansdowne (born May 13, 1737, Dublin—died May 7, 1805, London) was a British statesman and prime minister (July 1782 to April 1783) during the reign of George III.
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His younger son John Petty Fitzmaurice was created the 1st Earl of Shelbourne in the Peerage of Ireland in 1753 and his son William Petty FitzMaurice, the 2nd Earl of Shelburne, who served as British prime minister from 1782 to 1783, was created Marquess of Lansdowne in 1784.
FitzMaurice, William, Earl of Shelburne, Marquis of Lansdowne, a distinguished statesman, was born in Dublin, 20th May 1737. [His father, on the decease of a maternal uncle, inherited the large Irish estates of his grandfather, Sir William Petty, and was in 1753 created Earl of Shelburne.]
21 de abr. de 2019 · The Fall of the Fitzmaurices describes the extravagance of Thomas, 21st Lord of Kerry, Baron of Lixnaw, enobled as an Earl in 1723, who having made a remarkable marriage to Lady Anne Petty, daughter of Sir William Petty, proceeded to live a feudal lifestyle at the ancient seat of his Norman ancestors, the Old Court in Lixnaw.
