William Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne

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William Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, was an 18th-century British statesman who served as Prime Minister and played a key role in negotiating the end of the American Revolutionary War.

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instanceOf British statesman
Prime Minister of Great Britain
human
alsoKnownAs The Earl of Shelburne
The Marquess of Lansdowne
birthDate 1737-05-02
birthPlace Dublin
burialPlace All Saints' Church, Calne
child John Petty, 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
deathDate 1805-05-07
deathPlace Berkeley Square, London
linked to: Berkeley Square
educatedAt Christ Church, Oxford
Leiden University
endTimeOfPosition 1783-04-02
familyName Petty-FitzMaurice
father John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne
genreOfActivity politics
givenName William
knownFor Negotiating the end of the American Revolutionary War
Serving as Prime Minister of Great Britain
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Privy Council of Great Britain
linked to: Privy Council
memberOfPoliticalParty Whig Party
militaryRank Colonel
monarchDuringTerm George III
mother Mary FitzMaurice
nobleTitle 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
2nd Earl of Shelburne
Baron Wycombe
notableWork Negotiation of the 1783 Treaty of Paris
officeHeldJurisdiction Kingdom of Great Britain
parliamentaryRole Irish representative peer
Member of Parliament for Wycombe
positionHeld Chancellor of the Exchequer (Ireland)
First Lord of the Treasury
Home Secretary
Leader of the House of Lords
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Secretary of State for the Southern Department
precededBy The Marquess of Rockingham
residence Bowood House
linked to: Bowood
servedIn British Army
signatureImage Signature of William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
spouse Louisa FitzPatrick
Sophia Carteret
startTimeOfPosition 1782-07-04
succeededBy The Duke of Portland
linked to: Duke of Portland

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William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne alsoKnownAs William Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
Petty-Fitzmaurice family notableMember William Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
Earl of Shelburne notableHolder William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
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Lansdowne Portrait of George Washington commissionedFor William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
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Lansdowne Portrait of George Washington namedAfter William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
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William Petty nobleTitle 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
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Sophia Carteret spouse 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
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Louisa FitzPatrick spouseNobleTitle 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
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William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne alsoKnownAs 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
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William Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne nobleTitle 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
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Baron Lansdowne titleHolder William Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne