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 LITTON — LIVERPOOL. 123 LITTON, see Litton. LIVEDEN, see Lyveden. LIVERPOOL. Earldom. 1, Ciiaui.es Jenkinson, 1st sun of Charles Jenkinson-, I 179G Ool. i>f the Unrse Guards (3d a. of Sir Robert Jenkinson, 2d Bart.), by Amarantha, (la. of Wolfran CohnkhaLL, Capt. R.N., wag b. 16 May 1729, *) at Winchester ; ed. at Charterhouse and at Univ. Coll., Oxford ; mat., 14 March 1745/6, and then aged 16; B.A., 1719; M.A., 1752, being or. D.C.L, 7 July 1773. He was M.P. for Cookermouth, 1761-66; for Appleby, 1767-72; for Harwich, 1772-74 ; for Hastings, 1771-80, and for Saltash, 1780-86. Having been Private Secretary (1756-5S) to Lord Holderness, and again (1760-61) to Lord Bute, he was Under Sec. for the South, 1761-62; Treasurer of the Ordnance, 1762; Joint Sec. to the Treasury, 1763 to 1765, being the leader of the "King's friends " in the House of Commons. Under the Grafton Ministry he was a Lord of the Admiralty, 1766-67 ; a Lord of the Treasury, 1767-73 ; Joint V T ice Treasurer [I.], 1772-75 ; P.O., 1773 ; Clerk of the Pells [I,], 1775, and Sec. at War,(>>) 1778-82, at the close of the war with America, taking subsequently a promiueut part in framing the commercial treaties that arose after the peace. In 1781 he was made a Lord of Trade. He was cr., 21 Aug. 1786, BASON HAWKESBURY of Hawkesbury, co. Gloucester, and was President of the Board of Trade from Aug. 1786 to June 1804, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from Sep. 1786 to Nov. 1803. He sue. his cousin, Sir Banks Jenkinsou, the 6th Bart, on 22 July 1789, in the Baronetcy (cr. 18 May 1661). and family estates as also in the office of Collector of the Inland Customs. He was cr., 1 June 1796, EARL OK LIVERPOOL.^) He m. firstly, Feb. 1769, at St. Marylebone, Amelia, da. of William Watts, Gov. of Fort William, and President of the Council at Bengal. She d. 7 and was bur. 12 July 1770, aged 19, at Hawkesbury. M.I. He m. secondly, 22 June 17S2, at her house iu Hertford street, St. Geo. Han. sip, Catherine, widow of Sir Charles Cute, Bart., 5th and yst. da. of Sir Cecil Bissnopi', Bart., by Anne, da. of Hugh (Boscawex), 2d Viscount Falmouth. He d. in Hertford street, Mayfair, 17 Dec. 1S08, in his SOth year, and was bur. at Hawkesbury. M.I. Will pr. I809.( d ) His widow, who was b. 30 Nov. 1744, d. 1 Oct. 1827, aud was bur. the 10th at Euxted, aged 82. Will pr. Oct. 1827. II. 1808. 2. Robert Banks (Jenkin-son), Earl op Liverpool, Sec, 1st s. and h. by first wife, b. 7 June 1770, at St. Margaret's, Westm. ; ed. at Charterhouse aud at Ch. Ch.. Oxford; mat. 27 April 17S7; cr. M.A., 19 May 1790 ; M.P. for Bye, 1790—1803 ; a Commissioner for the affairs of India, 1793-99; stykd Lord Hawkesbury, 1796—1808; P.O., 1799: Master of the Mint, 1799 — 1801, with a seat in the Cabinet. He was sum. v.p. by writ, 15 Nov. 1803, in his father's Barony as BARON HAWKESBURY ; Home Secretary, 1804-06, aud again 1807-09, being (under Pitt's Administration) Leader in the House of Lords ; Lord Warden of the Ciuque Ports, 1S06-27 ; sue. to the Earldom, 17 Dec. 1808 ; War Secretary, 1809-12, aud, finally, First Lord of the Treasury (Prime (") See his M.I. as iu "Gloucestershire Notes and Queries," vol. v, p. 254. The usually received account is that he was b. 26 April and bap. 16 May 1727. ( b ) "The Secretary at War constituted an object of universal consideration and attracted all eyes towards him. * * Throughout Lord North's administration, 1770-82, his intercourse with the Kiug and even his influence over the Royal mind were assumed to be constant," &c. See Wraxall's "Hist. Memoirs" (vol. i, pp. 415—420, edit. 1884), where is an admirable summary of his character. He was popularly nicknamed " The Kiwjs Secret Adviser.'' (") At the request of the Municipality of Liverpool he by Royal lie, 23 July 1 796, was permitted to bear the arms thereof as an augmentation (ou a chief) to his paternal coat. (•1) His " Collection of Treaties, 164S—17S3 " is well known and his (extremely clever) "Coins of the Realm" first issued in 1S05, was reprinted by the Bank of England in 1880.