Robert Henley, 2nd Earl Of Northington
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Robert Henley, 2nd Earl of Northington (3 January 1747 – 5 July 1786), was a British politician. He was born the eldest son of
Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington, PC (c. 1708 – 14 January 1772), was the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. He was a member of the Whig Party in the parliament and was known for his wit and writing. Family Born the second son o ...
, and educated at
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and
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. He succeeded his father to the earldom in 1772, inheriting The Grange, Northington. He was appointed a
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in 1763, a position he held until his death. He was also Clerk of the hanaper for life from 1771. He was elected a Member of Parliament (MP) for
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on 30 March 1768, and sat until succeeding as 2nd Earl of Northington on 14 January 1772, when he moved to the
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. He was made a
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on 18 August 1773. In 1783 he served as
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in the Fox-North Coalition, being appointed a member of the Privy Council on 30 April. A 1787 portrait by
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is in the
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. On his death, unmarried and without a male heir, at the age of thirty-nine, his titles became extinct. His sisters (Lady Bridget Tollemache, Lady Jane Aston, Mary, Dowager Countess Ligonier, and Lady Elizabeth Eden) inherited his estates. They sold The Grange to the Drummond banking family.


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HENLEY, Robert, Lord Henley (1747-86). History of Parliament Online
1747 births 1786 deaths People educated at Westminster School, London Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Knights of the Thistle Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1768–1774 Lords Lieutenant of Ireland Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Earls in the Peerage of Great Britain Barons Henley {{GB-earl-stub