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    Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, KG, PC, FRS (13 May 1730 – 1 July 1782; styled The Hon. Charles Watson-Wentworth before 1739, Viscount...
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    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...
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    of it were redesigned in the 19th century. Wentworth Woodhouse was inherited by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, briefly Prime Minister...
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    British Magazine and Review. Vol. 1. 1782. The Most Honourable Charles Watson Wentworth. Disraeli, Benjamin (8 June 1855). "Prosecution of the War — Adjourned...
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    Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham, KB, PC (I) (13 November 1693 – 14 December 1750) of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire was a British...
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    as Wentworth in 1798. Both, Wentworth and Rockingham County were named in homage to the same individual; the Marquis of Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth...
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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...
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    Lady Anne Watson-Wentworth (daughter of Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham, and sister to Prime Minister Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess...
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    was the ancestor of the prominent eighteenth-century statesman Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham. Strafford had a daughter, Margaret...
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    Grenville, the Prime Minister who had enacted the Stamp Acts, by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham. Rockingham was more favourable towards...
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  • 18th-century British politics were a faction of the Whigs led by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, from about 1762 until his death in...
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    Lady Anne Watson-Wentworth (died 1769), daughter of Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham, and sister of Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess...
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  • Newfoundland Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730–1782), Whig Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Charles Watson (Wisconsin legislator)...
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  • Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1705) 1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, English politician, Prime Minister...
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    19th centuries. In 1782 he inherited the estates of his uncle Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, making him one of the richest people...
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  • 1751–1756: William FitzWilliam, 3rd Earl FitzWilliam 1751–1760: Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham 1752–?: James Carmichael, 3rd Earl...
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  • British politics: Henry Pelham and his brother Thomas Pelham-Holmes, Charles Watson-Wentworth, James Waldegrave, Augustus Fitzroy, William Cavendish-Bentinck...
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    April 26 – John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1805) May 13 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d...
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    Hon. Thomas Watson, later known as Thomas Watson-Wentworth (17 June 1665 – 6 October 1723), of Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire, was an English landowner...
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  • Austrian wife of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1780) 1730 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, English politician, Prime Minister...
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    Thomas Danby (MP) (1610–1660) Richard Neile, Archbishop (1631–1640) Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, (1730–1782) John Farr Abbott, barrister...
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    county), but it remains the county seat. The county is named for Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, a British statesman (1730–1782). He...
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    relationship with Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, assumed the governorship of New Hampshire the next year in 1767. Wentworth then retired...
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    one of five original counties for the colony. It is named for Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, who had been Prime Minister from 1765...
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  • Minister – Frederick North, Lord North (Tory) (until 22 March); Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (Whig) (starting 27 March, until 1...
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    ambushed Dighton in Halifax and shot him dead in Bull Close Lane. Charles Watson-Wentworth (the Marquess of Rockingham and former Prime Minister) was tasked...
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  • This article lists which other significant offices have been held by the prime ministers before and after they have come to power as Prime Minister of...
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    artists and commissions from aristocratic patrons quickly followed. Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham was a Whig politician, later to be...
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  • 1763 to 1765 Wotton, Buckinghamshire  England Charles Watson-Wentworth 1782 to 1782, 1765 to 1766 Wentworth, South Yorkshire  England William Pitt 1766...
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    businesses opening in the downtown area. The city was named for Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, British Prime Minister from 1765 to...
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