Charles Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool
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Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool GCB
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, PC (29 May 1784 – 3 October 1851), styled The Honourable Charles Jenkinson between 1786 and 1828, was a British
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 politician.

Background

Liverpool was the son of Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool
Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool
Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool PC , known as the Lord Hawkesbury between 1786 and 1796, was a British statesman. He was the father of Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool....

 by his second wife Catherine, daughter of Sir Cecil Bisshopp, 6th Baronet, and the younger half-brother of Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool KG PC was a British politician and the longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since the Union with Ireland in 1801. He was 42 years old when he became premier in 1812 which made him younger than all of his successors to date...

.. He was educated at Charterhouse School
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 and Christ Church, Oxford
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 During the Napoleonic Wars
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 he notably served as a volunteer in the Austrian Army at the Battle of Austerlitz
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 in 1805.

Political career

Liverpool was elected Member of Parliament
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 for Sandwich
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 in 1807, a seat he held until 1812, and then sat for Bridgnorth
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 from 1812 to 1818 and for East Grinstead
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 from 1818 to 1828. He held office under the Duke of Portland
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 as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
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 from 1807 to 1809 and under Spencer Perceval
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 as Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
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 from 1809 to 1810, but did not serve in his brother's 1812 to 1827 Tory administration
Tory Government 1812-1827
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. Liverpool succeeded in the earldom of Liverpool in 1828 on the death of his elder brother and took his seat in the House of Lords
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. In 1841 he was invested a member of the Privy Council and appointed Lord Steward of the Household in the government of Sir Robert Peel, a post he held until 1846.

Family

Lord Liverpool married Julia, daughter of Sir George Shuckburgh-Evelyn, 6th Baronet, in 1810. They had three daughters. Julia died in April 1814, shortly after the birth of her youngest child. Liverpool remained a widower until his death in October 1851, aged 67. On his death the barony of Hawkesbury and earldom of Liverpool
Earl of Liverpool
Earl of Liverpool is a title that has been created twice in British history. The first time was in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1796 for Charles Jenkinson, 1st Baron Hawkesbury, a favourite of King George III...

 became extinct. However, the baronetcy of Hawkesbury (created in 1661) also held by the late Earl, survived, and was passed on to a cousin (see Jenkinson Baronets
Jenkinson Baronets
There have been two Baronetcies created for people with the surname Jenkinson, both in the Baronetage of England. One creation is extant as of 2008...

). In 1905 the earldom was revived in favour of Liverpool's grandson, the Liberal politician Cecil Foljambe
Cecil Foljambe, 1st Earl of Liverpool
Cecil George Saville Foljambe, 1st Earl of Liverpool PC , known as The Lord Hawkesbury between 1893 and 1905, was a British Liberal politician...

, the son of Liverpool's second daughter Lady Selina and her husband George Savile Foljambe.

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