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Charles 2nd Marquess of Rockingham Watson-Wentworth KG (13 May 1730 - certain 1 Jul 1782)
13 de ago. de 2020 · Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham, was First Lord of the Treasury twice but spent most of his political career in opposition. He found it hard to maintain royal favour, an essential ...
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.
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 ...
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.’
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 ...
