British Offices and Honours
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The Right Honourable Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, K.G., P.C.

Known as[]

  • 1770-1786: Robert Jenkinson, Esq.
  • 1786-1790: The Hon. Robert Jenkinson
  • 1790-1796: The Hon. Robert Jenkinson, M.P.
  • 1796-1799: The Hon. Robert Jenkinson, commonly called Lord Hawkesbury, M.P.
  • 1799-1803: The Rt. Hon. Robert Jenkinson, commonly called Lord Hawkesbury, M.P.
  • 1803-1808: The Lord Hawkesbury, P.C.
  • 1808-1814: The Earl of Liverpool, P.C.
  • 1814-1828: The Earl of Liverpool, K.G., P.C.

Education[]

  • Charterhouse School
  • Christ Church, Oxford

Offices[]

Honorary Positions[]

  • Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1806-1827

Peerage Titles[]

By writ of acceleration[]

  • Baron Hawkesbury (Peerage of Great Britain), 1803

By inheritance[]

  • Earl of Liverpool (Peerage of Great Britain), 1808

Chivalric Orders[]

Privy Council[]

Parliamentary Seats[]

  • Member of Parliament for Rye, 1790-1803

Parliamentary Positions[]


Preceded by:
The Lord Grenville
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
1801–1804
Succeeded by:
The Lord Harrowby
Preceded by:
Charles Yorke
Secretary of State for the Home Department
1804–1806
Succeeded by:
The Earl Spencer
Preceded by:
The Earl Spencer
Secretary of State for the Home Department
1807–1809
Succeeded by:
Richard Ryder
Preceded by:
Viscount Castlereagh
Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
1809–1812
Succeeded by:
The Earl Bathurst
Preceded by:
Spencer Perceval
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury
1812–1827
Succeeded by:
George Canning
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