Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham, KB

Order of the Bath

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, PC (I)

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 (13 November 1693 – 14 December 1750) was a British peer

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 and Whig

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 politician.

Watson-Wentworth was the only son and heir of Hon. Thomas Watson

Thomas Watson-Wentworth

The Hon. Thomas Watson married Alice, a daughter of Sir Thomas Proby, 1st Baronet....

 (d.1723) (later Watson-Wentworth, the third son of Edward Watson, 2nd Baron Rockingham) and his wife, Alice, a daughter of Sir Thomas Proby, 1st Baronet

Sir Thomas Proby, 1st Baronet

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From 1715 to 1727, Watson-Wentworth was Member of Parliament

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 for Malton

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  and for Yorkshire

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 from 1727 to 1728.In 1725, he was appointed a Knight of the Bath

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, admitted to the Privy Council of Ireland

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 in 1733 and was Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire

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 from 1733 to 1750. In 1728, he was created Baron Malton, in 1734, Earl of Malton and in 1746, Marquess of Rockingham. He had inherited the barony of Rockingham from his cousin, Thomas Watson, 3rd Earl of Rockingham

Thomas Watson, 3rd Earl of Rockingham

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 earlier in 1746.

Family

On 22 September 1716, Rockingham married Lady Mary Finch, a daughter of Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham

Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham

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 and his second wife, Ann Hatton. They had five children:

• William, styled Viscount Higham (1728–1739)
• Hon. Charles, later styled Viscount Higham, later still 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
  Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
  Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, KG, PC , styled The Hon. Charles Watson-Wentworth before 1733, Viscount Higham between 1733 and 1746, Earl of Malton between 1746 and 1750 and The Earl Malton in 1750, was a British Whig statesman, most notable for his two terms as Prime...
  
   (1730–1782), Prime Minister of Great Britain.
• Lady Anne (d. 1769), married William FitzWilliam, 3rd Earl FitzWilliam
  William Fitzwilliam, 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam
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• Lady Mary, married John Milbanke.
• Lady Henrietta Alicia, married William Sturgeon.