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Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of
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| British statesman and prime minister (1768–70). He was secretary of state under Rockingham (1765–6), and First Lord of the Treasury under Pitt (1766); but owing to Chatham's illness Grafton had to undertake the duties of premier from September 1767. He resigned in 1770, and later served as Lord Privy Seal under North (1771–5) and in the new Rockingham ministry (1782–3). |
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