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Charles Watson-Wentworth (13 mai 1730 – 1 er juillet 1782) est un homme d'État britannique du parti Whig, qui est deux fois Premier ministre de Grande-Bretagne. Il ne tient que deux mandats importants au cours de son existence, Premier ministre et Président de la Chambre des lords , mais son influence est considérable lors de son second mandat.
Charles 2nd Marquess of Rockingham Watson-Wentworth KG (13 May 1730 - certain 1 Jul 1782)
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 ...
'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 überlebte als einziger Sohn die Pubertät, was ihn 1739 zum Titelerben machte; er führte den Höflichkeitstitel Viscount Higham. Watson-Wentworth besuchte die Westminster School und das St. John’s College , Cambridge . 1746 wurde er Oberst in einem Regiment Freiwilliger, wo er William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland kennenlernte, mit dem ihn eine lebenslange ...
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.
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham. Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue Entry. Statesman and twice Prime Minister. His first ministry, though only lasting thirteen months in 1765-6, was responsible for the repeal of the controversial Stamp Tax placed on the American colonies. Rockingham later supported proposals to grant the ...
