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Hace 2 días · Thomas Watson was the third son of Edward Watson, second Lord Rockingham, by Anne, eldest daughter of Thomas Wentworth, first Earl of Strafford, and took the name of Wentworth in 1695 on inheriting the vast estates of his mother.
Hace 2 días · Thomas, who died in 1723, was succeeded by his son Sir Thomas Watson-Wentworth, created Lord Malton in 1728, Earl of Malton in 1733 and Marquess of Rockingham in 1746. He was father of Charles Marquess of Rockingham, who succeeded him in 1750, was twice prime minister, and died childless in 1782.
Hace 3 días · For the next year Charles Watson-Wentworth, marquess of Rockingham, served as first lord of the treasury. But in July 1766 Rockingham was sacked and replaced by Pitt, now elevated to the House of Lords as earl of Chatham .
Hace 4 días · He died in 1795, and was succeeded by his son Lewis Thomas, second Baron, who died in 1806. His son, Richard Lewis, third Lord Sondes, sold Great Gidding in 1827 to William, fourth Earl Fitzwilliam (son of the third Earl Fitzwilliam and Anne Watson Wentworth, daughter of the Marquess of Rockingham). William died in 1833.
Hace 3 días · This is a list of Baroque palaces and residences built in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Baroque architecture is a building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy and spread in Europe. The style took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express ...
Hace 2 días · Upon accession to the English throne, he styled himself "King of Great Britain" and was so proclaimed. Legally, however, he and his successors held separate English and Scottish kingships until the Act of Union of 1707, when the two kingdoms were united as the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Hace 5 días · Charles Watson Wentworth 2nd Marquess of Rockingham KG PC FRS 13 May 1730 1 July 1782 styled The Hon Charles Watson Went
