. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . ri-ca, by Nathaniel Rochester (Buffalo, 1882). ROCKINGHAM, Charles Watson Went-worth, Marquis of, English statesman, b. in Eng-land, 19 March, 1730; d. in Wimbledon, Surrey,Mil-land, 1 July, 1782. He attached himself withardi ir to the Whig party in his youth, escapingfrom home in December, 1745, to bear arms in thearmy of the Duke of Cumberland again-t the la~lof the Stuarts. The Hanoverian princes rewardedhis devotion with distinctions and honors. In 1750lie succeeded his father in the marquisate. Thereactionary course of George III. impelled
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . ri-ca, by Nathaniel Rochester (Buffalo, 1882). ROCKINGHAM, Charles Watson Went-worth, Marquis of, English statesman, b. in Eng-land, 19 March, 1730; d. in Wimbledon, Surrey,Mil-land, 1 July, 1782. He attached himself withardi ir to the Whig party in his youth, escapingfrom home in December, 1745, to bear arms in thearmy of the Duke of Cumberland again-t the la~lof the Stuarts. The Hanoverian princes rewardedhis devotion with distinctions and honors. In 1750lie succeeded his father in the marquisate. Thereactionary course of George III. impelled him toresign his office of lord chamberlain, and on thedeal h of t he Duke of Devonshire in 1764 he becamethe recognized chief of the Whig parly, and wascalled on 30 .rune. 1T65, to preside over a principal task that he set before himself wasto restore a harmonious feeling between the mothercountry and the colonies in North America, exas-perated as they had been by the measures of thepreceding ministry. In this object he was opposed. by the king and was not supported by his col-leagues. The ministry made a show of carryingthe stamp-act into execution, but recoiled from thework of enforcing it with the bayonet, and when themanifestations in America had made clear the stateof feeling there, Rockingham was able, in March,1766, to secure therepeal of the stampduties. Before hesucceeded in redeem-ing his promise to re-move the restrictionson commerce or tocarry further meas-ures of conciliationhe was compelled, bythe defection of theDuke of Graft i m andthe ill will of theking, to give up theseals of ollice m the minis-tries of the Duke of(Ira ft on and LordNorth he combatedthe errors of his suc-cessors, and led in op-position the youngerstatesmen that finally repaired them. At theheight of the crisis, when England, distracted byfaction, had to face a coalition of France, Spain, andthe United States, Rockingham was again called tothe direction of affairs, but
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