Second Rockingham ministry

{{short description|Government of Great Britain}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox government cabinet |incumbent = March–July 1782 |image = 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (cropped).png |caption = Rockingham (after Joshua Reynolds) |date_formed = {{Start date|1782|3|27|df=y}} |date_dissolved = {{End date|1782|7|1|df=y}} |government_head_title = Prime Minister |government_head = Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham |state_head_title = Monarch |state_head = George III |former_members_number = |total_number = 16 appointments |political_party = Rockingham Whigs |legislature_status = Majority |legislature_term = 15th GB Parliament |opposition_party = Grenvillites |previous = North ministry |successor = Shelburne ministry |flag=Coat of arms of Great Britain (1714–1801).svg}} This is a list of the principal holders of government office during the second premiership of the Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham for four months in 1782. ==History==

The North ministry resigned on 22 March 1782 after losing the confidence of Parliament following the British defeat at the siege of Yorktown during the American War of Independence. Whig Lord Rockingham, Prime Minister from 1765 to 1766, formed a government. The Rockingham Whigs had generally been sympathetic to the cause of the Colonists and under Rockingham the British government began the negotiations leading to the Peace of Paris that concluded the war.

The death of Rockingham on 1 July 1782 caused a split in the ministry. The Home Secretary Lord Shelburne was appointed to succeed him, but several members of the government refused to serve under him and resigned. These "Portland Whigs" (named after their nominal leader, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, but in reality led by Charles James Fox) allied in opposition with Lord North and brought down the Shelburne ministry in 1783. The Portland Whigs came to power as the Fox–North coalition.

==Cabinet== : <section begin="March to July 1782" /> {{Cabinet table start | hidepartycol = y | hiderefcol = y }} {{Cabinet table minister | title = {{unbulleted list|First Lord of the Treasury|Leader of the House of Lords}} | minister1 = Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham | minister1_termstart = {{start date|1782|3|27|df=yes}} | minister1_termend = {{end date|1782|7|1|df=yes}} | minister1_ministryhead= y }} {{Cabinet table minister | title = Lord Chancellor | minister1 = Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow | minister1_termstart = {{start date|1778|6|3|df=yes}} | minister1_termend = {{end date|1783|4|7|df=yes}} }} {{Cabinet table minister | title = Lord President of the Council | minister1 = Charles Pratt, 1st Baron Camden | minister1_termstart = {{start date|1782|3|27|df=yes}} | minister1_termend = {{end date|1783|4|2|df=yes}} }} {{Cabinet table minister | title = Lord Privy Seal | minister1 = Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton | minister1_termstart = {{start date|1782|df=yes}} | minister1_termend = {{end date|1783|df=yes}} }} {{Cabinet table minister | title = Chancellor of the Exchequer | minister1 = Lord John Cavendish | minister1_termstart = {{start date|1782|3|27|df=yes}} | minister1_termend = {{end date|1782|7|10|df=yes}} }} {{Cabinet table minister | title = Secretary of State for the Home Department | minister1 = William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne | minister1_termstart = {{start date|1782|3|27|df=yes}} | minister1_termend = {{end date|1782|7|10|df=yes}} }} {{Cabinet table minister | title = {{unbulleted list|Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs|Leader of the House of Commons}} | minister1 = Charles James Fox | minister1_termstart = {{start date|1782|3|27|df=yes}} | minister1_termend = {{end date|1782|7|5|df=yes}} }} {{Cabinet table minister | title = First Lord of the Admiralty | minister1 = Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel | minister1_termstart = {{start date|1782|df=yes}} | minister1_termend = {{end date|1783|df=yes}} }} {{Cabinet table minister | title = Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | minister1 = John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton | minister1_termstart = {{start date|1782|4|17|df=yes}} | minister1_termend = {{end date|1783|8|29|df=yes}} }} {{Cabinet table minister | title = Master-General of the Ordnance | minister1 = Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond | minister1_termstart = {{start date|1782|df=yes}} | minister1_termend = {{end date|1783|df=yes}} }} {{Cabinet table minister | title = Commander-in-Chief of the Forces | minister1 = Henry Seymour Conway | minister1_termstart = {{start date|1782|df=yes}} | minister1_termend = {{end date|1783|df=yes}} }} {{Cabinet table end}}<section end="March to July 1782" />

==Ministers not in Cabinet== * Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham – First Lord of Trade * Isaac Barré – Treasurer of the Navy * Thomas Townshend – Secretary at War * Edmund Burke – Paymaster of the Forces * William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland – Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

==References== {{refbegin}} * {{cite book |last=Cook |first=Chris |last2=Stevenson |first2=John |title=British Historical Facts: 1760–1830 |url=https://archive.org/details/britishhistorica0000cook_t2t9 |url-access=registration |year=1980 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |isbn=978-0-333-21512-8}} {{refend}}

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