Chronology

Liverpool's Great(x4)-Grandfather

1529 - 1611

Liverpool's father

April 26, 1729 - December 17, 1808

Liverpool's mother

December 22, 1750 - July 12, 1770

Lord Chancellor 1801-06, 1807-27

June 4, 1751 - January 13, 1838

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1812-23

1754 - August 13, 1831

Master of the Ordnance, 1810-1819

February 14, 1755 - April 7, 1831

Henry Addington, First Viscount Sidmouth

Home Secretary, 1812-22.

May 30, 1757 - February 15, 1844

Lord Privy Seal, 1798-1806, 1807-27

June 1, 1759 - December 15, 1841

Robert Hobart, Fourth Earl of Buckinghamshire

President of the Board of Control, 1812-16

May 6, 1760 - February 4, 1816

Richard Colley Wellesley, First Marquess Wellesley

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1821-28, 1833-34

June 20, 1760 - September 26, 1842

Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, 1812-27

May 22, 1762 - July 27, 1834

Lord President of the Council, 1812-27

22 December 1762 – 26 December 1847

Master of the Mint (in the Cabinet), 1814-23

May 20, 1763 - February 22, 1845

Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1812-23

April 29, 1766 - February 8, 1851

Liverpool's first wife

February, 1767 – June 12, 1821

Joint Secretary to the Treasury, 1809-1823

March 14, 1767 - August 18, 1850

Richard Le Poer Trench, Second Earl of Clancarty

President of the Board of Trade, 1812-18; Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1813-23

May 19, 1767 - November 24, 1837

Vice-President of the Board of Trade, 1818-23; Master of the Mint, 1823-27

1768 - February 23, 1844

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Master-General of the Ordnance 1818-27

May 1, 1769 - September 14, 1852

Foreign Secretary, 1812-22

June 18, 1769 - August 12, 1822

First Commissioner of Woods and Forests, 1814-23; President of the Board of Trade, 1823-27

March 11, 1770 - September 15, 1830

President of the Board of Control, 1816-21; Foreign Secretary 1807-9, 1822-27

April 11, 1770 – August 8, 1827

Robert Banks Jenkinson, Second Earl of Liverpool

Prime Minister, 1812-27

June 7, 1770 – December 4, 1828

Robert Saunders-Dundas, Second Viscount Melville

First Lord of the Admiralty, 1812-27, 1828-30

March 14, 1771 - June 10, 1851

Solicitor General, 1819-24; Attorney General, 1824-26; Master of the Rolls, 1826-27

May 21, 1772 – October 12, 1863

President of the Board of Control, 1822-28.

October 9, 1775 – September 2, 1850

Liverpool's second wife

June 24, 1777 – October 18, 1846

Joint Secretary of the Treasury, 1823-27

November 1778 – April 24, 1855

Secretary to the Admiralty, 1809-30

December 20, 1780 - August 10, 1857

President of the Board of Trade, 1818-23, 1841-43; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1823-27

November, 1 1782 – January 28, 1859

Under Secretary for War and the Colonies 1812 - 1821

March 19, 1784 – January 12, 1856

Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool

Liverpool's half-brother

May 29, 1784 – October 3, 1851

Henry John Temple, Third Viscount Palmerston

Secretary at War, 1809-28

October 20, 1784 – October 18, 1865

Home Secretary 1822-27, 1828-30

February 5, 1788 - July 2, 1850

Political diarist from 1820 - 1832

September 10, 1793 – August 2, 1834

Robert Banks Jenkinson is born in London

June 7, 1770

1783

Christ Church College, Oxford

May 19, 1790

June, 1790

Maiden speech in the House of Commons

February 29, 1792

Marriage to Lady Louisa Hervey

March 25, 1795

Following the 1797 Militia Act, which authorized the recruiting of 6,000 militia in Scotland, a recruiting squad of about 80 soldiers under Major Wight, which included a party of the Cinque Ports light cavalry under Captain Finlay, was attacked with rocks, bottles etc. in Tranent by an organized mob of protesters against Army recruiting activities. After several attempts to quell the rioters, Major Wight ordered the dragoons to fire, killing some of the rioters but dispelling them, after which the soldiers appear to have lost discipline and killed various innocent people in the surrounding countryside, to a total of 11 dead and 8 injured. Liverpool, the Cinque Ports light cavalry’s commanding officer, was not present, being at the county town of Haddington about 10 miles away. The facts of the case were laid before the Lord Advocate of Scotland, but no action was taken. The “massacre” as it can correctly be called with respect to the non-rioters, who appear to have represented 7 of the 11 killed, has recently been played up locally, with a rather ugly monument to the rioters erected in 1995. Liverpool’s collateral involvement has of course fuelled nationalist and leftist agendas. The accusation that he should have been present at Tranent makes little sense since only a small part of his regiment was involved, and Major Wight, not of his regiment, was the senior officer present. Liverpool can however be considerably criticized for the poor discipline of his men and for the failure of Captain Finlay to keep them under control.

August 29, 1797

March 1799

March 14, 1801

Preliminaries of peace signed for Treaty of Amiens

October 1, 1801

The Liverpools Move into Coombe Wood

August 1802

During this period as Home Secretary, he founded the Bow Street Horse Patrol, to protect London from the menace of highwaymen.

May 1804

Death of Pitt, Asked to Form New Government

George III first asks Liverpool to become prime minister, following the death of Pitt. After reflecting for two hours, Liverpool turns the offer down; he is consoled by being given Pitt’s lucrative office of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.

January 24, 1806

Liverpool and Eldon visit the King to form the Duke of Portland’s government. Liverpool becomes Home Secretary again.

March 19, 1807

Formation of Spencer Perceval's Government

Liverpool becomes Secretary of State for War and Colonies

October 4, 1809

May 11, 1812

June 8, 1812

Battle of Leipzig, with all Allied forces except Bavaria paid for by Britain – decisive battle of the war.

October 16-19, 1813

Liverpool changes official British war aims to restoration of the Bourbons.

March 24, 1814

Liverpool opens Second Reading debate on the Corn Laws.

March 15, 1815

Four days before Waterloo, Vansittart raises £27 million of “Consols” at cost of 5.62%. Napoleon is dead meat.

June 14, 1815

Passage of the Savings Bank Act of 1817, providing safe home for working-class savings. Pictured is Dr. Henry Duncan, the originator of the idea in 1810.

June 1817