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Rockingham Whigs
Rockingham Whigs | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Marquess of Rockingham |
| Founded | 1765 |
| Dissolved | 1784 |
| Preceded by | Pittites |
| Merged into | Portlandites |
| Headquarters | Northamptonshire |
| Ideology | Conservatism[1] Parliamentarism[2] |
| Political position | Centre-right |
The Rockingham Whigs (or Rockinghamites) in 18th-century British politics were a faction of the Whigs led by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, from about 1762 until his death in 1782. The Rockingham Whigs briefly held power from 1765 to 1766 and again in 1782, and otherwise were usually in opposition to the various ministries of the period.
- ^ Guttridge, George Herbert (1942). English Whiggism and the American Revolution. University of California Press. p. 38.
- ^ Russell, Kirk (2001). The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot. Regnery Publishing. p. 15. ISBN 9780895261717.
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