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Mary Watson-Wentworth, Marchioness of Rockingham (née Liddell, later Bright; 1735 – 19 December 1804) was the wife of Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, who was prime minister of Great Britain in 1782 and again from 1765 to 1766.
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El marquesado de Rockingham fue un título nobiliario británico concedido en 1746 por el rey Jorge II a Thomas Watson-Wentworth, barón Malton. Era hijo del Hon. Thomas Watson y primo del conde de Strafford. Su nombre se refiere al Rockingham Castle, propiedad familiar en Northamptonshire. [1]
- Watson-Wentworth
- Thomas Watson-Wentworth
- extinto, 1782
- Early Life: 1730–1751
- Early Political Career: 1751–1765
- Prime Minister: 1765–1766
- Opposition: 1766–1782
- Prime Minister: 1782
- Legacy
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Family and military career
A descendant of the 1st Earl of Strafford, Lord Rockingham was the second son of Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham and Lady Mary Finch, daughter of 7th Earl of Winchilsea, he was brought up at the family lavish home of Wentworth Woodhouse near Rotherham in Yorkshire. He was educated at Westminster School. During the Jacobite rising of 1745 Rockingham's father made him a colonel and organised volunteers to defend the country against the "Young Pretender".: 3 Rockingham's sist...
Lordships and titles
In April 1746 Rockingham's father was made a marquess (remaining the only marquess in the British peerage for quite some time) and Rockingham himself assumed the courtesy title of Earl of Malton. These honours came about due to the patronage of Henry Pelham.: 4 At this time Rockingham was travelling across Europe under the tutorship of George Quarme, as his father had decided against sending him to Cambridge.: 5–9 During his stay in Rome, Rockingham noted that amongst Englishmen Whigs outnumb...
Member of Parliament
On 13 May 1751 (his 21st birthday), Rockingham inherited his father's estates. The rents from the land in Yorkshire, Northamptonshire and Ireland gave him an annual income of £20,000 (equivalent to £4,000,000 in 2023). He also controlled both of the borough parliamentary seats of Malton and one seat for the single-member borough of Higham Ferrers (Northants), along with twenty-three livings and five chaplaincies in the church.: 10 In July he was appointed Lord Lieutenant and custos rotulorum...
Lord of the Bedchamber
In 1752, Rockingham was appointed Lord of the Bedchamber to George II and married Mary Bright (1735 – 1804). In 1753 the Rockingham Club was formed, containing the first Rockingham Whigs. Rockingham hired James Stuart, of whom he was a patron, to paint portraits of William III and George II for the club rooms. The club held monthly meetings and a list written in June 1754 showed it had 133 members.: 20 In 1755 the King appointed him to the honorary office of Vice Admiral of the North.: 21 Dur...
The king's dislike, as well as Grenville's general lack of parliamentary support, led to his dismissal in 1765, and, following negotiations conducted through the medium of the king's uncle, the Duke of Cumberland, Lord Rockingham was appointed prime minister. Rockingham recovered the honours of which he had been deprived in 1762. Rockingham appoint...
Rockingham spent the next sixteen years in opposition. He was a keen supporter of constitutional rights for colonists. Rockingham wrote to Edmund Burke on 14 February 1771: "I fear indeed the future struggles of the people in defence of their Constitutional Rights will grow weaker and weaker. It is much too probable that the power and influence of ...
In 1782 he was appointed prime minister for a second time (with Charles James Fox and Lord Shelburne as Secretaries of State) and, upon taking office, pushed for an acknowledgement of the independence of the United States, initiating an end to British involvement in the American War of Independence. Due to rising unemployment, in this second premie...
Rockingham's estates, but not his marquessate, passed to his nephew William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam. Burke wrote to Fitzwilliam on 3 July 1782: "You are Lord Rockingham in every thing. ... I have no doubt that you will take it in good part, that his old friends, who were attached to him by every tie of affection, and of principle, and amo...
The Hon. Charles Watson-Wentworth (1730–1733)Viscount Higham (1733–1746)Earl of Malton (1746–1750)The Rt. Hon. The Earl Malton (1750–1750)C. Collyer, 'The Rockinghams and Yorkshire politics, 1742–61', The Thoresby Miscellany, 12, Thoresby Society, 41 (1954), pp. 352–82.A. Cox and A. Cox, Rockingham Pottery and Porcelain, 1745–1842(1983).G. H. Guttridge, The Early Career of Lord Rockingham, 1730–1765(University of California, 1952).R. J. Hopper, 'The second marquis of Rockingham, coin collector', Antiquaries Journal, 62 (1982), pp. 316–46.- St John's College, Cambridge
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28 de abr. de 2022 · Mary Watson-Wentworth (Bright) Birthdate: 1736: Death: December 19, 1804 (67-68) Hillingdon House, Uxbridge Immediate Family: Daughter of Thomas Bright and Margaret Bright Wife of Prime Minister Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham. Managed by: Michael Lawrence Rhodes: Last Updated: April 28, 2022
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Watson-Wentworth, Mary, (1736-1804), Marchioness of Rockingham. This page summarises records created by this Person. The summary includes a brief description of the collection (s) (usually...
National Portrait Gallery, London. Marquess of Rockingham, in the County of Northampton, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1746 for Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Earl of Malton. The Watson family descended from Lewis Watson, Member of Parliament for Lincoln.
