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

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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-FitzMaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
this entity surface form: William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
Lansdowne Portrait of George Washington commissionedFor William Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
this entity surface form: William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
Lansdowne Portrait of George Washington namedAfter William Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
this entity surface form: William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne