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ROBERT HENLEY

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 786 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT HENLEY  , 2nd
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earl of Northington (1747-1786), only surviving son of the lord chancellor, was appointed a teller of the
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exchequer in 1763, and lord
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lieutenant of Ireland in 1783, an office which he administered in a spirit of concession to popular claims in Ireland, encouraging native
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industries and public
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economy, by which he made himself beloved by the Irish
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people . He resigned in 1784, and died unmarried on the 5th of
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July 1786, when the titles granted to his
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father became
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extinct . See Lord Henley, Memoir of Robert Henley, Earl of Nortkington (
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London, 1831) ; Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors; Foss's Judges of England; Horace Walpole's
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Memoirs .

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