ADMINISTRATI0N

1760. The Ministry continued as under George II
1761. Jan. Lord Henley (afterwards Earl of Northington), Lord Chancellor; March, Earl of Bute, a Secretary of State vice Lord Holdernesse; October, Earl of Egremont a Secretary of State vice Mr. Pitt; Viscount Barrington, Chancellor of the Exchequer. 1762. Earl of flute, First Lord of the Treasury; Sir Francis Dashwood, Chancellor of the Exchequer;
1762 Earl of Bute, First Lord of the Tresury Sir Francis Dashwood Chancellor of the Exchequer ;Lord Granvile, Lord President; Duke of Bedford, Lord Privy Seal; George Grenville, Secretary of State vice Earl of Bute.
1763. George Grenville, First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer; Earl of Halifax and Earl of Sandwich, Secretaries of State.
1765. Marquis of Rockingham, First Lord of the Treasury; William Dowdeswell, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham, Lord President; Duke of Newcastle, Lord Privy Seal; Duke of Portland, Lord Chamberlain; General Conway and the Duke of Grafton, Secretaries of State; Charles Townsend, Paymaster vice Henry Fox Lord Holland, who had held the office since 1757.
1766, Earl of Chatham, Lord Privy Seal; Duke of Grafton, first Lord of the Treasury; Charles Townsend, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Earl of Northington, Lord President; Lord Camden, Lord Chancellor; Duke of Richmond, Secretary of State vice Duke of Grafton, June; Earl of Shelburne vice Duke of Grafton, August; Lord North, a joint Paymaster, he had been a Lord of Treasury from 1759 -1765.
1767. Lord North, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
1768. Earl of Bristol, Lord Privy Seal vice Chatham; Lord Weymouth, Secretary of State vice General Conway; Earl of Hillsborough (afterwards Marquis of Downshire), Secretary of State for the Colonies; Earl of Rochford, Secretary of State vice Earl of Shelburne.
1770. Lord North, First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer; Earl of Halifax, Lord Privy Seal. The Lord President Secretaries of State and other chief officers continued as before. The Hon. Charles James Fox was Junior Lord of the Admiralty, 1770-71, and a Commissioner of the Treasury, 1773, at which date he became an opponent of Lord North's Ministry. This Ministry, with some changes, held office through the American War till after the surrender of Yorktown.
1771. Earl of Halifax, Secretary of State vice Earl of Sandwich, who became First Lord of the Admiralty; Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire became Lord Privy Seal vice Earl of Halifax, Jan.; Duke of Grafton, Lord Privy Seal vice Earl of Suffolk; Earl of Suffolk, Secretary of State vice Earl of Halifax, June; Lord Apsley (afterwards Earl Bathurst) Lord Chancellor. 1772. Earl of Dartmouth, Secretary of State vice Earl of Hillsborough.
1775. Viscount Weymouth, Secretary of State vice Earl of Rochford; Lord George Sackvi]le Germaine; Secretary of State Vice Earl of Dartmouth; Earl of Dartmouth, Lord Privy Seal vice Duke of Grafton.
1778. Lord Thurlow, Lord Chancellor.
1779. Viscount Stormont Secretary of State vice Earl of Suffolk; Earl Bathurst Lord President vice Earl Gower.
1780. Earl of Hillsborough, Secretary of State vice Lord Weymonth.
1782. The failure of the American War led to the resignation of Lord North's Ministry, and the King was obliged to send for the Rockingham Whigs. The Marquis of Rockingham was First Lord of the Treasury; Lord John Cavendish, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord Camden, Lord President; Duke of Grafton, Lord Privy Seal; Earl of Shelburne and Charles James Fox, Secretaries of State for Home and Foreign Affairs respectively; Edmund Burke, Paymaster.
In the same year the Marquis of Rockingham died, and the " King appointed " the Earl of Shelburne First Lord of the Treasury, against the wishes of some of the Ministry. Fox, Lord John Cavendish, Burke, and others resigned. William Pitt Was Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord Grantham Home Secretary; Thomas Townshend (afterwards Viscount Sydney), Foreign Secretary; Isaac Barre, Paymaster.1783.
The "Coalition Ministry" succeeded Shelburne. The Duke of Portland was first Lord of the Treasury; Lord John Cavendish, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Viscount Stormont, President of the Council; Earl of Carlisle, Lord Privy Seal; Lord North, Home Secretary; Charles James Fox, Foreign Secretary; Edmund Burke, Paymaster. Lord Thurlow resigned, and the Great Seal was put in commission.
At the end of the same year the Coalition was dismissed, after Fox's India Bill had been thrown out in the House of Lords by the Kings interference.
William Pitt was First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, aetat 25 ; Earl Gower, Lord President; Duke of Rutland, Privy Seal; Marquis of Caermarthen (afterwards Duke of Leeds), Home Secretary; Thomas Townshend, (afterwards Viscount Sydney), Foreign Secretary; Henry Dundas (afterwards Viscount Melville), Treasurer of the Navy; William Wyndham Grenville (afterwards Lord Grenville), Joint Paymaster; Lord Thurlow, Lord Chancellor.
1789. W. W. Grenville, Home Secretary vice Duke of Leeds.
1791. Lord Grenville, Foreign Secretary vice Lord Sydney; Henry Dundee, Home Secretary vice Grenville.
1792. Lord Thurlow resigned; the Great Seal in Commission.
1793. Lord Loughborough, Lord Chancellor.
1794. Duke of Portland, Rome Secretary, vice Dundas. Dundas, Colonial Secretary and Secretary for War.
1799. George Canning member of the Board of Control.
1801. Mr. Pitt resigned. Henry Addington ( afterwards Lord Sidmouth ), First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer; Duke of Portland, Lord President; Earl of Westmoreland, Privy Seal; Lord Pelham (afterwards Earl of Chichester), Home Secretary; Lord Hawkesbury (afterwards Earl of Liverpool, Foreign Secretary; Lord Hobart, War and Colonial Secretary; Charles Yorke, Secretary at War; Lord Eldon, Lord Chancellor; Lord St. Vincent, First Lord of the Admiralty.
1802. Viscount Castlereagh (afterwards Marquis of Londonderry ), President of the Board of Control.
1803. Charles Yorke, Home Secretary, vice Pelham.
1804. William Pitt, First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord Sidmouth, Lord President; Earl of Westmoreland, Lord. Privy Seal; Lord Hawkesbury, Home Secretary; Lord Harrowby, succeeded in 1805 by Earl of Mulgrave, Foreign Secretary; Earl Camden, succeeded in 1805 by Lord Castlereagh, War and Colonial Secretary; Viscount Melville, succeeded in 1805 by Lord Barham, First Lord of the Admiralty.
William Pitt died January 23rd, 1806.
1806. Lord Grenville, First Lord of the. Treasury; Lord Henry Petty, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord President; Viscount Sidmouth, Privy Seal; Charles
James Fox , Foreign Secretary; Earl Spencer, Home Secretary; William Windham, War and Colonial Secretary; Earl of Moira (formerly Lord Rawdon, afterwards Marquis of Hastings),
Master-General of the Ordnance; Earl of Minto, President of the Board of Control; Sir Charles Grey (afterwards Viscount Howick and Earl Grey ), First Lord of the Admiralty; Lord Erskine, Lord Chancellor.
Mr. Fox died Sept 13th, 1806.
Lord Howick became Foreign Secretary; Thomas Grenville, First Lord of the Admiralty; Viscount Sidmouth, Lord President; Lord Holland, Privy Seal.
1807. Duke of Portland, First Lord, of the Treasury; Mr. Spencer Perceval, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord Hawkesbury, Home Secretary; Canning, Foreign Secretary; Castlereagh, War and Colonial Secretary; Earl Camden, Lord President; Earl of Westmoreland, Privy Seal; Lord Eldon, Lord Chancellor, an office which he held till 1827.
1809. Spencer Perceval, First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer; the Hon. Richard Ryder, Home Secretary; Marquis of Wellesley, Foreign Secretary; Earl of Liverpool, War and Colonial Secretary; Viscount Palmerston, Secretary at War. Lord President and Lord Privy Seal as before.
1812. Mr. Spencer Perceval was murdered in the lobby of the House of Commons May 11th, 1812.
The Earl of Liverpool became First Lord of the Treasury; Mr. Nicholas Vansittart (afterwards Lord Bexley), Chancellor of the Exchequer; Viscount Sidmouth, Home Secretary; Castlereagh, Foreign Secretary; Earl Bathurst, War and Colonial Secretary; Earl of Harrowby, Lord President; Earl 'of Westmoreland, Lord Privy Seal; Viscount Melville (son of the former Viscount Melville), First Lord of the Admiralty; Viscount Palmerston continued Secretary at War till 1828.
The Earl of Liverpool continued holding office till his fatal illness in 1827.
1812. Mr., afterwards Sir Robert Peel, Irish Secretary.
1815. Mr. William Huskisson became a Member of the Board of Trade.
1816. Mr. Canning became President of the Board of Control
1818. Mr. Frederick J. Robinson (afterwards Viscount Goderich and Earl of Ripon) became President of the Board of Trade.
1819. The Duke of Wellington became Master-General of the Ordnance.

LORDS-LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND IN THE REIGN OF George III

1760 Duke of Bedford.
1761 Earl of Halifax.
1763 Earl of Northumberland.
1765 Viscount Weymouth (did not reside). - Earl of Hertford.
1766 Earl of Bristol (did not reside).
1767 Viscount Townsend.
1772 Earl Harcourt.
1777 Earl of Buckinghamshire.
1780 Earl of Carlisle.
1782 Duke of Portland, during whose Lieutenancy the Irish Parliament became independent.
Earl Temple (afterwards Marquis of Buckingham).
1783 Earl of Northington.
1784 Duke of Rutland.
1787 Marquis of Buckingham.
1790 Earl of Westmoreland.
1794 (December 10th) Earl Fitzwilliam.
1795 (March 11th) Earl Camden.
1798 Marquis Cornwallis , during whose Lieutenancy the Union was carried.
1801 Earl of Hardwicke
1805 Earl Powis (did not reside).
1806. Duke of Bedford.
1807 Duke of Richmond.
1813 Viscount (afterwards Earl) Whitworth.
1817 Earl Talbot
John Fitzgibbon ( Lord Fitzgibbon and Earl of Clare ) was Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1789 to 1802.

GOVERNORS - GENERAL OF INDIA

Colonel Robert Clive ( Lord Clive ) was Administrator of Bengal June 27th, 1758, to Jan 24th, 1760, and again from May 3rd, 1765, to Jan. 20th, 1767.
Mr. Warren Hastings was Administrator, April 13th, 1772, and held his first Council as Governor - General, under Lord North's Regulating Act Oct. 20th, 1774. Resigned Feb. 1,
1785.
1785 Sir John Macpherson.
1786 Earl (afterwards Marquis) Cornwallis.
1793. Sir John Shore (afterwards Lord Teignmouth).
1793. Marquis Cornwallis, appointed, but resigned before sailing.
1797. Sir Alured Clarke (April to May).
1797. Lord Mornington (afterwards Marquis Wellesley).
1798. Sir Alured Clarke ( April to May )
1805. Marquis Cornwallis (July to October, died Oct 5th).
1805. Sir George Barlow.
1807. Earl of Minto
1813. Earl of Moira (afterwards Marquis of Hastings) to 1823.