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Henley, Robert, ca. 1707-1772
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ca. 1707-1772
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HENLEY, ROBERT, 1ST EARL OF NORTHINGTON, second son of Anthony Henley MP, The Grange, Hampshire, and Mary, dau. of Hon. Peregrine Bertie; b.; adm. (aged 12) Mar 1719/20; in under school list 1721; St. John’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 19 Nov 1724; BA 10 Mar 1728/9; MA 1733; Fellow, All Souls Coll. Oxford 8 Nov 1727 [check]; adm. Inner Temple 1 Feb 1728/9, called to bar 23 Jun 1732, tenant chambers there from 1729, Bencher 1751; inherited family estates in Hampshire and Dorset from brother 1745; MP Bath 1747 – 30 Jun 1757; KC 12 Jul 1751; Solicitor-Gen. to George III when Prince of Wales 1751-4, Attorney-Gen. to Prince of Wales 1754-6; Attorney-Gen., 6 Nov 1756 – Jun 1757; knighted 6 Nov 1756; Lord Keeper of Great Seal 30 Jun 1757 – Jan 1761; Speaker of the House of Lords Jun 1757 – Jul 1766, although not a peer until Mar 1760; Privy Counsellor 30 Jun 1757; created Baron Henley 27 Mar 1760; Lord Chancellor 16 Jan 1761 – Jul 1766; created Earl of Northington 19 May 1764; presided as Lord High Steward at trials of Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers (qv), Apr 1760, and of William Byron, 5th Baron Byron (qv), May 1765; procured dismissal of Rockingham administration 1766; Lord President of the Council 30 Jul 1766 – 23 Dec 1767; DL Dorset 1757; Lord Lieut., Hampshire 20 Aug 1764 – 6 Feb 1771; m. 19 Nov 1743 Jane, dau. of Sir John Huband, Bart.; d. 14 Jan 1772. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.