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Robert Walpole, first Earl of Orford : "All these men have their price" Spencer Compton, first Earl of Wilmington, "George II's favourite nonentity" Henry Pelham : pragmatic heir to Walpole Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle : mighty panjandrum, feeble premier William Cavendish, fourth Duke of Devonshire : "I have no motive but the king's service" John Stuart, third Earl of Bute : the king's "dearest friend" George Grenville : able premier, undetermined by his own prolixity Charles Watson-Wentworth, second Marquess of Rockingham : the conscience of the Whigs William Pitt, the Elder, first Earl of Chatham : "I am sure that I can save this country, and that nobody else can" Augustus Henry Fitzroy, third Duke of Grafton : well-intentioned dilettante Frederick North, styled Lord North : outstanding parliamentarian, pity about the colonies ... William Petty, second Earl of Shelburne : too clever by half? William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, third Duke of Portland : twice a figurehead premier William Pitt, the Younger : peacetime prodigy, less successful in war. |