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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 ...
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)
'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, 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 ...
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 (1730. május 13. – 1782. július 1.), Rockingham második őrgrófja, a Térdszalagrend lovagja, királyi titkos tanácsos, whig párti brit politikus, miniszterelnök. Élete során mindössze két hivatalt töltött be (a másik a Lordok Háza elnöksége volt), de másfél éves vezetése során nagy befolyással rendelkezett.
