Page:History of New South Wales from the records, Volume 1.djvu/686

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662 PITT'S MINISTRY. Lord Sydney* — Secretary of State for the Home Department Lord ITiurlow — Lord Chancellor. Lord Howet — First Lord of the Admiralty. The Cabinet was thus composed of seven members. In addition to these, the Government included the following: — Duke of Kichmond — Master-General of the Ordnance. Henry Dundas^ — ^Treasurer of the Navy, Lloyd Kenyon§^ — Attorney-General. Richard Pepper Arden|| — Solicitor-General William Wyndham Grenville, ] afterwards Lord GrenvilleU > Joint Paymasters of the Forces. Lord Mulgrave j Sir George Yonge — Secretary at War. ?hS^ieX::: } s--^"- °* ^^^ ^'^^ y- Duke of Rutland — Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Lord Hawkesbury** — President of the Council of Trade and Plantations.

  • Retired in June, 1789 ; succeeded by Lord Grenville.

t Succeeded by Lord Chatham, Pitt's brother, in 1788. t Appointed to the Home Department in 1791 in place of Lord Grenville. § Appointed Lord Chief Justice in succession to Lord Mansfield, who retired m^ 1788. tl Appointed Master of the Rolls on the promotion of Lloyd Kenyon. IT Appointed to the Home Department on the resignation of Lord Sydney in June, 1789. In 1790, he was raised to the peerage and appointed to the Foreign Office, where he remained until the resignation of the Ministry in 1801.

    • Charles Jenkinson, raised to the peerage in 1786 as Baron Hawkes-

bury, and in 1796 created Earl of Liverpool. The Hawkesbury river was nam^ after him ; Collins, p. 72. Digitized by Google