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AUGUSTUS HENRY FITZROY

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 317 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUGUSTUS See also:HENRY See also:FITZROY , 3rd See also:duke of See also:Grafton (1735–1811), one of the leading politicians of his See also:time, was the See also:grandson of the and duke, and was educated at See also:Westminster and See also:Cambridge. He first became known in politics as an opponent of See also:Lord See also:Bute; in 1765 he was secretary of See also:state under the See also:marquis of See also:Rockingham; but he retired next See also:year, and See also:Pitt (becoming See also:earl of See also:Chatham) formed a See also:ministry in which Grafton was first lord of the See also:treasury (1766) but only nominally See also:prime See also:minister. Chatham's illness at the end of 1767 resulted in Grafton becoming the effective See also:leader, but See also:political See also:differences and the attacks of " See also:Junius led to his resignation in See also:January 1770. He became lord privy See also:seal in Lord See also:North's ministry (1771) but resigned in 1775, being in favour of conciliatory See also:action towards the See also:American colonists. In the Rockingham ministry of 1782 he was again lord privy seal. In later years he was a prominent Unitarian. Besides his successor, the 4th duke (1760–1844), and numerous other See also:children, he was the See also:father of See also:General Lord See also:Charles Fitzroy (1764–1829), whose sons See also:Sir Charles Fitzroy (1798–1858), See also:governor of New See also:South See also:Wales, and See also:Robert Fitzroy (q.v.), the hydrographer, were notable men. The 4th duke's son, who succeeded as 5th duke, was father of the 6th and 7th See also:dukes. The 3rd duke See also:left in See also:manuscript a Memoir of his public career, of which extracts have been printed in See also:Stanhope's See also:History, See also:Walpole's Memories of See also:George III. (Appendix, vol. iv.), and See also:Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors.

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