biography
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Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of
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| (1770–1828)
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| biography:
| British prime minister (1812–27), born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, entered parliament in 1790, and was a member of the India Board (1793–6), Master of the Royal Mint (1799–1801), foreign secretary (1801–4), home secretary (1804–6, 1807–9), and secretary for war and the colonies (1809–12). He succeeded his father as Earl of Liverpool in 1807. As premier, he oversaw the final years of the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812–14 with the USA. He resigned after a stroke early in 1827. |
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