Frederick John Robinson

Frederick John Robinson was the younger son of the 2nd Baron Grantham, and was raised mainly by his mother, the daughter of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, after his father died when he was three years old. He was educated …
Arthur Burns is Professor of Modern British History at King’s College London where he teaches 18th and 19th-century British political and social History. He is also Vice-Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. He chief research interests lie in the later 18th and early 19th centuries, and in particular in the history of the Church of England both as an institution and as a profession. He is a director of the important online historical resource, The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835 (www.theclergydatabase.org.uk) and has written widely on the intersection of the church and the wider political culture in later Hanoverian Britain. He was one of the editors of the award-winning St Paul’s: The Cathedral Church of London 604-2004 (Yale, 2004), and is currently working on a study of the Christian Socialist tradition at Thaxted in Essex. Arthur Burns is currently Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society with particular responsibility for Education.
Frederick John Robinson was the younger son of the 2nd Baron Grantham, and was raised mainly by his mother, the daughter of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, after his father died when he was three years old. He was educated …
...and then Attorney General, and was then Pitt’s chief law officer in the Commons during a series of important political trials. For example, he prosecuted the revolutionary Colonel Edward Despard...
...1784, through the influence of his elder brother George, Earl Temple. He served under his brother as Irish Chief Secretary in Dublin during Shelburne’s ministry of 1782-3, but when Temple...
...childhood, and who he loyally supported. He held this office until 1801, and enhanced its reputation, being re-elected twice without opposition. Pursuing peace When Pitt resigned as Prime Minister in...
William Pitt (the younger) was born on 28 May 1759 at Hayes Place, Kent, the second son of William Pitt (the elder), later 1st Earl of Chatham and himself Prime Minister. He matriculated at Pembroke College, Cambridge at the age …
...himself clearly with the ‘Rockinghamite’ group of Whigs with whom he returned to office in 1782 as Lord Lieutenant in Ireland, resigning the following year when Shelburne took office on...
...An unhappy Irish childhood was followed by study at Christ Church, Oxford and then military service. By 1760, having seen action in the Seven Years War (1756-63), he had risen...
...upward path to a Treasury post in 1759, an office he retained through three administrations. He took a leading role in the Grenville government's controversial response to the radical MP...
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