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By Martin Hutchinson. Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister: Lord Liverpool unpicks two centuries of Whig history to redeem Lord Liverpool (1770-1828) from ‘arch-mediocrity’ and establish him as the greatest political leader the country has ever seen. In the past, biographers of Lord Liverpool have not sufficiently acknowledged the importance ...
Liverpool then spent a year in opposition, before returning as Home Secretary in Portland’s cabinet in 1807. In 1809, when Perceval became Prime Minister, Liverpool was appointed Secretary of War. Liverpool worked hard to secure loans and run the British war effort, despite a bleak outlook, with Napoleon largely triumphant in Europe.
Liverpool’s main weakness as Prime Minister was a lack of clubability; he joined the Tory club White’s as a young man but used it less as he grew older and withdrew his name in 1823. William Wellesley-Pole in 1820 criticised his unsociability and his lack of attention to the minor details of party management and suggested he ‘spent too much time shut up with clerks’.
13 de may. de 2018 · Lord Liverpool, who took office in 1812, was in some ways an accidental prime minister. He succeeded Spencer Perceval upon his dramatic assassination in the House of Commons and then became one of the longest serving prime ministers, whose nearly 15-year tenure, longer than Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blairâ?Ts, was exceeded only by that of Robert Walpole and Pitt the Younger.
Britain's Greatest Prime Minister: Lord Liverpool unpicks two centuries of Whig history to redeem Lord Liverpool (1770-1828) from 'arch-mediocrity ...
May 30, 1757 - February 15, 1844. Henry Addington (1757-1844) First Viscount Sidmouth from 1805. Home Secretary, 1812-22. Minister without Portfolio, 1822-24. Speaker of the House of Commons, 1789-1801. Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1801-4. Lord President of the Council, 1805, 1806-7 and 1812. Lord Privy Seal, 1806.
Appearances mislead. Perceval's cabinet united behind Liverpool, who saw the prospects as “doubtful, but not desperate.” After grasping for alternatives, the prince regent appointed Liverpool prime minister. Cabinet making and domestic politics soon afterwards led into the complexities of peacemaking abroad.
