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WILLIAM DOWDESWELL (1721-1775)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 457 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:DOWDESWELL (1721-1775)  , See also:English politician, was a son of See also:William See also:Dowdeswell of Pull See also:Court, Bushley, See also:Worcestershire, and was educated at See also:Westminster school, at See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, and at the university of See also:Leiden . He became member of See also:parliament for the See also:family See also:borough of See also:Tewkesbury in 1747, retaining this seat until 1754, and from 1761 until his See also:death he was one of the representatives of See also:Worcester-See also:shire . Becoming prominent among the Whigs, Dowdeswell was made See also:chancellor of the See also:exchequer in 1765 under the See also:marquess of See also:Rockingham, and his See also:short See also:tenure of this position appears to have been a successful one, he being in See also:Lecky's words "a See also:good financier, but nothing more." To the See also:general astonishment he refused to abandon his See also:friends and to take See also:office under See also:Lord See also:Chatham, who succeeded Rockingham in See also:August 1766 . Dowdeswell then led the Rockingham party in the See also:House of See also:Commons, taking an active See also:part in debate until his death at See also:Nice on the 6th of See also:February 1775 . The highly eulogistic See also:epitaph on his See also:monument at Bushley was written by See also:Edmund See also:Burke .

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