Frederick Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon

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Frederick Robinson

Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon, 1st Viscount Goderich (born November 1, 1782 in London , † January 28, 1859 ibid) was a British politician and Prime Minister .

Life

Robinson, younger son of Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham , studied at Harrow and Cambridge . From 1804 to 1806 he was private secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Earl of Hardwicke . In 1806 he became a member of the House of Commons for Carlow and later Ripon , which he represented until 1827, was under-secretary for a few months in 1809, naval treasurer from 1810 to 1812, and then vice-president of the trade office.

In 1814 he accompanied Castlereagh to the continent for the negotiations in Chaumont and Châtillon . A grain bill, which was detrimental to the poor class and enforced by Robinson in Parliament in 1815, caused unrest in London, with Robinson's painting collection being destroyed. In 1818 he became President of the Commerce Office and Treasurer of the Naval Office.

As an ally of George Cannings , he received the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1823 , whereupon he was nicknamed "Prosperity Robinson" by William Cobbett because of the budget surpluses he had booked, with which the National Gallery was founded in 1824 . In 1827 he became the new Prime Minister of War and Colonial Affairs under Canning ; He was the same as Viscount Goderich in the hereditary nobility raised. In the House of Lords he has since often defended Canning's liberal views and after his death (August 1827) was commissioned by George IV to form a new cabinet, which he himself headed.

He supported the blockade of Greece against the Turkish fleet, which led to the destruction in the naval battle of Navarino in October 1827. After an earlier resignation offer, he received his release in January 1828 and was replaced by Wellington . In 1830 he received under Gray again the War and Colonial Ministry, but exchanged it in 1833 with the dignity of the seal keeper , whereupon he was elevated to the Earl of Ripon . As such, he brought the Abolition Act into the House of Lords in 1833, which was successfully passed. In opposition to Irish church law and its appropriation clause, he resigned from office in May 1834.

Since then he has approached the Tories again , and when they came back to power under Robert Peel in 1841 , Ripon returned to the Ministry as President of the Commerce Office. Not in agreement with Peel on all commercial matters, however, he exchanged that post in 1843 for that of the President of the Control Committee of the East India Company ; In 1846 he definitely withdrew from public life and rarely appeared in the House of Lords.

His son and heir George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, also pursued a long political career as MP, Minister, Diplomat, Viceroy of India and Lord Seal Keeper.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Kurt Kluxen : History of England. From the beginning to the present (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 374). 2nd Edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-520-37402-1 , p. 525.
predecessor Office successor
New title created Viscount Goderich
1827-1859
George Robinson
New title created Earl of Ripon
1833-1859
George Robinson
Richard Trench President of the Board of Trade
1818–1823
William Huskisson
George Rose Treasurer of the Navy
1818-1823
William Huskisson
Nicholas Vansittart Chancellor of the Exchequer
1823–1827
George Canning
John Lambton Keeper of the Lord
Seal 1833–1834
George Howard
Henry Labouchère President of the Board of Trade
1841–1843
William Ewart Gladstone