The Earl of Liverpool | |
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![]() Portrait by George Romney | |
President of the Board of Trade | |
In office 23 August 1786 – 7 June 1804 | |
Monarch | George III |
Prime Minister | William Pitt the Younger Henry Addington |
Preceded by | The Lord Sydney (President of the Committee on Trade and Foreign Plantations) |
Succeeded by | The Duke of Montrose |
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | |
In office 6 September 1786 – 11 November 1803 | |
Monarch | George III |
Prime Minister | William Pitt the Younger Henry Addington |
Preceded by | The Earl of Clarendon |
Succeeded by | Lord Pelham |
Personal details | |
Born | 26 April 1729 Oxfordshire, England |
Died | 17 December 1808 London, England | (aged 79)
Spouses | Amelia Watts
(m. 1769; died 1770)Catherine Bishopp (m. 1782) |
Children | 3, including Robert and Charles |
Alma mater | University College, Oxford |
Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool, PC (26 April 1729 – 17 December 1808), known as Lord Hawkesbury between 1786 and 1796, was a British statesman. He was the father of Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool.