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