Charles Grey,2nd Earl Grey,known as Viscount Howick between 1806 and 1807,was a British Whig politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1830 to 1834. He was a descendant of the House of Grey and the namesake of Earl Grey tea. Grey was a long-time leader of multiple reform movements. During his time as prime minister,his government brought about two notable reforms. The Reform Act 1832 enacted parliamentary reform,greatly increasing the electorate of the House of Commons.
William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck,3rd Duke of Portland was a British Whig and then a Tory politician during the late Georgian era. He served as chancellor of the University of Oxford (1792–1809) and as Prime Minister of Great Britain (1783) and then of the United Kingdom (1807–1809). The gap of 26 years between his two terms as prime minister is the longest of any British prime minister. He was also an ancestor of King Charles III through his great-granddaughter Cecilia Bowes-Lyon,Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
John Charles Spencer,3rd Earl Spencer,,styled Viscount Althorp from 1783 to 1834,was a British statesman and abolitionist. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne from 1830 to 1834. Due to his reputation for integrity,he was nicknamed "Honest Jack".
Thomas Pelham,2nd Earl of Chichester PC,PC (Ire),FRS,styled The Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1768 until 1783,The Right Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1783 to 1801,and then known as Lord Pelham until 1805,was a British Whig politician. He notably held office as Home Secretary under Henry Addington from 1801 to 1803.
Henry Richard Vassall-Fox,3rd Baron Holland of Holland,and 3rd Baron Holland of Foxley PC,was an English politician and a major figure in Whig politics in the early 19th century. A grandson of Henry Fox,1st Baron Holland,and nephew of Charles James Fox,he served as Lord Privy Seal between 1806 and 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents headed by Lord Grenville and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between 1830 and 1834 and again between 1835 and his death in 1840 in the Whig administrations of Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne.
George Howard,6th Earl of Carlisle of Castle Howard,,styled Viscount Morpeth until 1825,was a British statesman. He served as Lord Privy Seal between 1827 and 1828 and in 1834 and was a member of Lord Grey's Whig government as Minister without Portfolio between 1830 and 1834.
George John Spencer,2nd Earl Spencer,,styled Viscount Althorp from 1765 to 1783,was a British Whig politician. He served as Home Secretary from 1806 to 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents. He was also the father of the Venerable Father Ignatius of St Paul,a Roman Catholic convert to the priesthood.
The Leader of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition,more commonly referred to as the Leader of the Opposition,is the person who leads the Official Opposition in the United Kingdom. The position is seen as the shadow head of government of the United Kingdom and thus the shadow prime minister of the United Kingdom.
William Brabazon Ponsonby,1st Baron Ponsonby,was a leading Irish Whig politician,being a member of the Irish House of Commons,and,after 1800,of the United Kingdom parliament. Ponsonby was the son of the Hon. John Ponsonby,the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and Lady Elizabeth Cavendish,daughter of the 3rd Duke of Devonshire. He was invested as a Privy Counsellor of Ireland in 1784. He served as Joint Postmaster-General of Ireland (1784–1789).
George Tierney PC was an Irish Whig politician. For much of his career he was in opposition to the governments of William Pitt and Lord Liverpool. From 1818 to 1821 he was Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons.
The 1818 United Kingdom general election was the 5th general election after the Acts of Union 1800,held on 17 June 1818 to 18 July 1818. It saw the Whigs gain a few seats,but the Tories under the Earl of Liverpool retained a majority of around 90 seats. The Whigs were divided over their response to growing social unrest and the introduction of the Corn Laws.
The 1812 United Kingdom general election was the fourth general election after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland,held on 5 October 1812 to 10 November 1812,taking place at the height of the Napoleonic Wars.
Bishopscourt is a townland in County Kildare,Ireland,near Kill,Ardclough and Straffan and beside the N7 road. The Bishopscourt estate,the main estate house for which was known as Bishopscourt House or Bishops Court House,was once held by the Bishops of Kildare.
The Hon. George Ponsonby,was an Irish politician,who served as a Junior Lord of the Treasury in the governments under Earl Grey and Lord Melbourne from 1832 to 1834.
Henry Boyle,3rd Earl of Shannon,KP,PC (Ire),styled Viscount Boyle from 1764 until 1807,was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer who was one of the last surviving members of the Parliament of Ireland. He represented County Cork in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1807. He then briefly served as Member of Parliament for Bandon in 1807,succeeding as Earl of Shannon later in the same year. He served as Custos rotulorum for County Cork from 1807 to his death. He was the first Lord Lieutenant of Cork from 1831 to his death.
Mary Elizabeth Grey,Countess Grey was a British aristocrat and political hostess. She is notable for being the wife of the prime minister in the 1830s through her marriage to Charles Grey,2nd Earl Grey.
Cornelius O'Callaghan,1st Viscount Lismore PC (I) was an Irish Whig politician.
Charles Tottenham was an Irish Conservative and Tory politician.
