Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool
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Preceded by | The Earl of Clarendon |
Succeeded by | Lord Pelham |
Personal details | |
Born | 26 April 1729 Oxfordshire, England |
Died | 17 December 1808 London, England | (aged 79)
Spouses | Amelia Watts
(m. 1769; died 1770)Catherine Bishopp (m. 1782) |
Children | 3, including Robert and Charles |
Alma mater | University College, Oxford |
Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool,
Early years, family and education
He was born in
Political career
In 1761, Liverpool entered parliament as member for
In 1766, after a short retirement, he became a
From 1778 until the close of
In 1786 he was created Baron Hawkesbury, of Hawkesbury in the County of Gloucester, and ten years later, Earl of Liverpool. He also succeeded his cousin in 1790 as the 7th
Family
Liverpool was twice married. In 1769 he married first Amelia, daughter of William Watts, governor of Fort William, Bengal, and of his wife, better known as Begum Johnson.[1] Amelia died in July 1770, a month after the birth of her only child, Robert.[2]
Liverpool married secondly Catherine, daughter of Sir Cecil Bishopp, 6th Baronet, and widow of Sir Charles Cope, 2nd Baronet,[1] on 22 June 1782 at her house in Hertford Street, London.[3] They had one son, Charles, who became 3rd Earl of Liverpool, and one daughter, Charlotte, who married James Grimston, 1st Earl of Verulam.[2]
On Lord Liverpool's death, he was succeeded by his son from his first marriage, Robert, who became a prominent politician and eventually Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.[4] The Countess of Liverpool died in October 1827, aged 82.[3]
Legacy
Liverpool wrote several political works, but according to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, other than for his Treatise on the Coins of the Realm (1805) these are "without striking merits".[1]
The Hawkesbury River in New South Wales, Australia and Hawkesbury, Ontario, Canada were named after Jenkinson shortly after he was created Baron Hawkesbury.
At least two ships were named after Jenkinson under his title of Lord Hawkesbury: one launched in America in 1781—presumably under another name—but entered in Lloyd's Register from 1787 as the Lord Hawkesbury, sailing as a whaler; and the East Indiaman Lord Hawkesbury, launched in 1787.
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h Chisholm 1911.
- ^ a b Petrie 1954, p. 4.
- ^ a b Cokayne 1906, p. 19.
- ^ Petrie 1954, p. 130.
References
- LCCN 06023564
- ISBN 9787800284403.
Attribution:
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Liverpool, Earls of". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 804. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
Further reading
- Cannon, John (2008) [2004]. "Jenkinson, Charles, first earl of Liverpool (1729–1808)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14737. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Hamilton, John Andrew (1892). Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 309–310. . In
- Spencer, Howard (2009), "Jenkinson, Hon. Charles Cecil Cope (1784–1851), of Pitchford Hall, Salop and Buxted Park, Suss.", in Fisher, D.R. (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832, Cambridge University Press