638 APPENDIX D 1 7 14. Sep. 24. James Stanhope, afterwards Earl Stanhope, til Dec. 17 1 6 171 6. Dec. 12. Paul Methuen ^pro lem. in Stanhope's absence 6 July to 12 Dec. 1716] 1717. Apr. 16. Joseph Addison 1717/8. Mar. 16. James Craggs, till his death 16 Feb. 1 720/1 1 720/ 1. Mar. 4. John, Lord Carteret, afterwards Earl Granville 1724. Apr. 3. Thomas (Pelham-Holles), Duke of Newcastle, trans, to the Northern department Feb. 1 747/8(*) 1747/8. Feb. 13. John (Russell), Duke of Bedford 1751. June 18. Robert (Darcy), Earl of Holdernesse, trans, to the Northern department Mar. 1754 1754. Mar. 23. Sir Thomas Robinson, afterwards Lord Grantham 1755. Nov. 14. Henry Fox, afterwards Lord Holland 1756. Dec. 4. William Pitt, afterwards Earl of Chatham, till April 1757; reappointed 29 June 1757 1 761. Oct. 12. Charles (Wyndham), Earl of Egremont, till his death 21 Aug. 1763 1763. Sep. 9. George (Montagu-Dunk), Earl of Halifax, till July 1765 (from the Northern department) 1765, July 10. Henry Seymour Conway, trans, to Northern department May 1766 1766. May 23. Charles (Lennox), Duke of Richmond 1766. July 30. William (Petty), Earl of Shelburne, afterwards Marquess of Lansdowne 1768. Oct. 21. Thomas (Thynne), Viscount Weymouth, after- wards Marquess of Bath (from the Northern department) 1770. Dec. 19. William (Nassau), Earl of Rochford (from the Northern department) 1775. Nov. 10. Thomas (Thynne), Viscount Weymouth, after- wards Marquess of Bath C") 1779. Nov. 24. Wills (Hill), Earl of Hillsborough, afterwards Marquess of Downshire, till Mar. 1782 [Robert Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford, First Lord of the Treasury, was appointed a Secretary of State 29 May 1723 /ro tern, during the absence on the Continent of Lords Carteret and Townshend in atten- dance on King George I.] (^) He resigned with his colleague (Harrington) 10 Feb. 1745/6, but resumed office four days later, no successor having been appointed to his department in the interim. C") He administered the Northern department as well as the Southern from the death of Suffolk in March 1779 till the appointment of his successor, Stormont, in the following October.
