Charles Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool

The Right Honourable
The Earl of Liverpool
GCB PC
Lord Steward of the Household
In office
3 September 1841  29 June 1846
Monarch Queen Victoria
Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, Bt
Preceded by The Earl of Erroll
Succeeded by The Earl Fortescue
Personal details
Born 29 May 1784 (1784-05-29)
Died 3 October 1851 (1851-10-04) (aged 67)
Nationality British
Political party Tory
Spouse(s) Julia Shuckburgh-Evelyn
(d. 1814)

Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool GCB PC (29 May 1784 – 3 October 1851), styled The Honourable Charles Jenkinson between 1786 and 1828, was a British politician.

Background

Liverpool was the son of Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool by his second wife Catherine, daughter of Sir Cecil Bishopp, 6th Baronet, and the younger half-brother of Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool.[1] He was educated at Charterhouse School and Christ Church, Oxford During the Napoleonic Wars he notably served as a volunteer in the Austrian Army at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805.[2]

Political career

Liverpool was elected Member of Parliament for Sandwich in 1807, a seat he held until 1812,[3] and then sat for Bridgnorth from 1812 to 1818[4] and for East Grinstead from 1818 to 1828.[5] He held office under the Duke of Portland as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1807 to 1809 and under Spencer Perceval as Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies from 1809 to 1810, but did not serve in his brother's 1812 to 1827 Tory administration. Liverpool succeeded in the earldom of Liverpool in 1828 on the death of his elder brother and took his seat in the House of Lords. In 1841 he was invested a member of the Privy Council[6] and appointed Lord Steward of the Household in the government of Sir Robert Peel,[7] a post he held until 1846.[8]

Family

On 19 July 1810, Lord Liverpool married Julia Evelyn Medley Shuckburgh-Evelyn, daughter of Sir George Shuckburgh-Evelyn, 6th Baronet and Julia Annabella Evelyn.[9] The couple had had three daughters:

Julia died in April 1814, shortly after the birth of her youngest child. Liverpool remained a widower until his death in October 1851, aged 67. On his death the Barony of Hawkesbury and Earldom of Liverpool became extinct. However, the baronetcy of Hawkesbury (created in 1661) also held by the late Earl, survived, and was passed on to a cousin (see Jenkinson Baronets). In 1905, the earldom was revived in favour of Liverpool's grandson, the Liberal politician Cecil Foljambe, the son of Liverpool's second daughter, Lady Selina Charlotte, and her husband George Savile Foljambe.[1]

References

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir Horatio Mann, Bt
Thomas Francis Fremantle
Member of Parliament for Sandwich
1807–1812
With: Peter Rainier 1807–1808
John Spratt Rainier 1808–1812
Succeeded by
Joseph Maryatt
Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke
Preceded by
Isaac Hawkins Browne
Thomas Whitmore
Member of Parliament for Bridgnorth
1812–1818
With: Thomas Whitmore
Succeeded by
Thomas Whitmore
Sir Thomas John Tyrwhitt Jones
Preceded by
George William Gunning
Lord Strathavon
Member of Parliament for East Grinstead
1818–1828
With: Lord Strathavon
Succeeded by
Lord Strathavon
Viscount Holmesdale
Political offices
Preceded by
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
18071809
Succeeded by
Henry Goulburn
Preceded by
Edward Cooke
Hon. Charles Stewart
Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
18091810
With: Hon. F. J. Robinson 1809
Henry Bunbury 18091810
Succeeded by
Henry Bunbury
Robert Peel
Preceded by
The Earl of Erroll
Lord Steward of the Household
1841–1846
Succeeded by
The Earl Fortescue
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by
Robert Banks Jenkinson
Earl of Liverpool
1828–1851
Extinct
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
Robert Jenkinson
Baronet
(of Hawkesbury)
1828–1851
Succeeded by
Charles Jenkinson
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