Alexander Baring,1st Baron Ashburton,PC,of The Grange in Hampshire,of Ashburton in Devon and of Buckenham Tofts near Thetford in Norfolk,was a British politician and financier,and a member of the Baring family. Baring was the second son of Sir Francis Baring,1st Baronet,and of Harriet,daughter of William Herring.
William Petty Fitzmaurice,1st Marquess of Lansdowne,,was an Anglo-Irish Whig statesman who was the first home secretary in 1782 and then prime minister from 1782 to 1783 during the final months of the American War of Independence. He succeeded in securing peace with America and this feat remains his most notable legacy.
Edward Thurlow,1st Baron Thurlow,PC,KC,was a British lawyer and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1765 to 1778 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Thurlow. He served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain for fourteen years and under four Prime Ministers.
Marquess of Lansdowne is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1784,and held by the head of the Petty-Fitzmaurice family. The first Marquess served as Prime Minister of Great Britain.
Baron Ashburton,of Ashburton in the County of Devon,is a title that has been created twice,once in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Since 1835,the title has been held by members of the Baring family.
Fletcher Norton,1st Baron Grantley,PC was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1756 to 1782 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Grantley.
Sir Francis Baring,1st Baronet was an English merchant banker,a member of the Baring family,later becoming the first of the Baring baronets.
Norborne Berkeley,4th Baron Botetourt,was a British courtier,member of parliament,and royal governor of the colony of Virginia from 1768 until his death in 1770.
Thomas Pitt,1st Baron Camelford was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1761 until 1784 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Camelford. He was an art connoisseur.
Sir Robert Palk,1st Baronet of Haldon House in the parish of Kenn,in Devon,England,was an officer of the British East India Company who served as Governor of the Madras Presidency. In England he served as MP for Ashburton in 1767 and between 1774 and 1787 and for Wareham,between 1768 and 1774.
Charles Brett was a Royal Navy officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1768 and 1790.
Sir Henry Strachey,1st Baronet was a British civil servant and politician who sat in the House of Commons for 39 years from 1768 to 1807.
Peniston Lamb,1st Viscount Melbourne,known as Sir Peniston Lamb,2nd Baronet,from 1768 to 1770,was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1793. He was the father of Prime Minister William Lamb,2nd Viscount Melbourne.
Sir John Wrottesley,8th Baronet,of Wrottesley Hall in Staffordshire,was a British army officer and politician who was a Member of the British House of Commons from 1768 to 1787.
Johann Baring,later anglicised to John Baring,was a German-British merchant. He came to England in 1717 as an immigrant,as the apprentice of a wool merchant. His decision to settle permanently in England started the Baring family on the road to becoming one of the leading family banking firms in the world.
Spitchwick is an historic estate situated within the parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor,Devon. The present 19th century mansion house known as Spitchwick Manor is situated four miles north-west of Ashburton,the gardens of which are open to the paying public.
Sandridge is an historic estate in the parish of Stoke Gabriel in Devon,situated on high ground at the head of the River Dart estuary. The estate was originally encompassed on three sides by the river,which meanders along its border,leaving it on the east side. The present grade II* listed Italianate style Regency mansion house known as Sandridge House was built in 1805 by Lady Ashburton,to the design of John Nash.
In British politics,a Whig government may refer to the following British governments administered by the Whigs:
Walter Palk (1742-1819),of Marley House in the parish of Rattery,Devon,England,was a Member of Parliament for his family's Pocket Borough of Ashburton in Devon from 1796 to 1811. He served as Sheriff of Devon (1791-2) and in 1798 was a Captain in the Ashburton Volunteer Militia,one of many such units formed across Devon to counter a possible invasion by Napoleon.
