William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam
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William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam, styled Viscount Milton until 1756, was a British Whig statesman of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1782 he inherited the estates of his uncle Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, making him one of the richest people in Britain.
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Portrait of the Marquess of Rockingham. Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, as painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1766. He was Fitzwilliam's maternal uncle and Fitzwilliam inherited his estates in 1782.
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Fitzwilliam as painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1786.
Portrait of Charles James Fox by Anton Hickel, 1794. Fitzwilliam would eventually break with Fox in 1793 over Fox's support for the French Revolution and would not rejoin him until 1801 when he supported peace with France.
Edmund Burke as painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c. 1767-69. Burke's doctrines would have a lasting impact on Fitzwilliam.
William Pitt as painted by Gainsborough Dupont, 1792. Fitzwilliam, along with other conservative Whigs, entered into a coalition government with Pitt in 1794. Fitzwilliam would be relieved of office in acrimonious circumstances in 1795.
William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, as painted by John Murphy, after Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1796. Fitzwilliam would blame Portland for his dismissal as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.Politicians born in the 1740s 6
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William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam, styled Viscount Milton until 1756, was a British Whig statesman of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1782 he inherited the estates of his uncle Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, making him one of the richest people in Britain. He played a leading part in Whig politics until the 1820s.
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