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Baptised: 12 August 1719

Died: 9 July 1795

Member of Privy Council - 10 July 1765

son of Charlotte Shorter

husband of Caroline Campbell

son-in-law of John Campbell

Eton College (1732 -)

Army Officer

Groom of the Bedchamber	1757	1764
Secretary of State for the Southern Department	July 1765	May 1766
Secretary of State, Northern Department	May 1766	June 1768

27 March 1775		Bury St Edmunds	Whig	16	55.17
12 September 1780		Bury St Edmunds		18	67.92