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Watson-Wentworth

[ wot-suhn-went-wurth ]

noun

  1. Charles, 2nd Marquis of Rock·ing·ham [rok, -ing-, uh, m], 1730–82, British statesman: prime minister 1765–66, 1782.


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This county is named for Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, a two-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.

More than a century after Strafford’s death, the estate still remained at the heart of English political intrigue, having by then passed into the hands of the Watson-Wentworth family, who were influential members of the Whigs party.

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