Everything about Charles Jenkinson 1st Earl Of Liverpool totally explained
Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool (
26 April 1727 –
17 December 1808),
English statesman, eldest son of Colonel Charles Jenkinson (d. 1750) and grandson of Sir Robert Jenkinson, Bt, of
Walcot,
Oxfordshire, was born in
Winchester. The family was descended from
Anthony Jenkinson (d. 1611), sea-captain, merchant and traveller, the first Englishman to penetrate into
Central Asia.
Charles was educated at
Charterhouse School and
University College, Oxford, where he graduated M.A. in
1752. In
1761 he entered parliament as member for
Cockermouth and was made Under-Secretary of State by
Lord Bute; he won the favor of
George III, and when Bute retired Jenkinson became the leader of the
King's Friends in the
House of Commons. In
1763 George Grenville appointed him joint
Secretary to the Treasury; in
1766, after a short retirement, he became a Lord of the
Admiralty and then a Lord of the
Treasury in the
Grafton administration; and from
1778 until the close of
Lord North's ministry in
1782 he was
Secretary at War. From
1786 to
1803 he was
President of the Board of Trade and
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and he was popularly regarded as enjoying the confidence of the king to a special degree. In
1772 Jenkinson became a
Privy Councillor and Vice Treasurer of Ireland, and in
1775 he purchased the lucrative sinecure of clerk of the pells in Ireland and became
Master of the Mint. In
1786 he was created
Baron Hawkesbury and ten years later
Earl of Liverpool. He died in London on
17 December 1808.
Liverpool was twice married: first to Amelia (d. 1770), daughter of
William Watts, governor of
Fort William,
Bengal, and secondly to Catherine, daughter of Sir Cecil Bisshoff, Bart., and widow of Sir Charles Cope, Bart. He had a son by each marriage. His eldest son,
Robert, was to become a prominent politician and eventually
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Liverpool wrote several political works but except his
Treatise on the Coins of the Realm (1805) these are, according to the
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, "without striking merits."
The
Hawkesbury River in
New South Wales,
Australia as well as
Hawkesbury, Ontario,
Canada were named after Jenkinson shortly after he was created Baron Hawkesbury.
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