The Marquis of Rockigham (Charles Wentworth) was an English politician. He was born in 1730 and died in 1783. While Prime Minister of England from 1765 to 1766, he secured the repeal of the stamp Act. He became Prime Minister again in 1782 and began the negotiation of the Treaty of Paris with the United States. Research Marquis of Rockingham
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