Robert Henley, 2nd Earl of Northington (3 January 1747 – 5 July 1786) was a British politician.

He was elected a Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Hampshire

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 on 30 March 1768, and sat until succeeding as Earl of Northington on 14 January 1772, when he moved to the House of Lords

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. He was made a Knight of the Thistle on 18 August 1773. In 1783 he served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

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 in the Fox-North Coalition

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, being appointed a member of the Privy Council

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 on 30 April. A 1787 portrait by Joshua Reynolds

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 is in the Art Gallery of South Australia

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On his death at the age of thirty-nine, his titles became extinct.