Goderich, Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount (1782-1859). Prime minister. Educated at Harrow and St John's College, Cambridge, Goderich sat as a moderate Tory for Carlow in 1806 and for Ripon, 1807-27. He held a number of offices—lord of Admiralty 1810-12, vice-president of the Board of Trade 1812-18, lord of Treasury 1812-13, joint paymaster general 1813-17, president of the Board of Trade 1818-23 and 1841-3, treasurer of the navy 1818-23, secretary of state for war and the colonies 1827, 1830-3, lord privy seal 1833-4, president of the Board of Control for India 1843-6. He was made viscount 1827 and earl of Ripon 1833. His period as chancellor of the Exchequer 1823-7 earned him the nickname ‘Prosperity Robinson’, yet his premiership September 1827- January 1828 was a dismal failure, distinguished only by cabinet quarrels. ‘A transient and embarrassed phantom’, was Disraeli's terse comment.
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| In office 31 August 1827 – 21 January 1828 |
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| Monarch | George IV |
| Preceded by | George Canning |
| Succeeded by | The Duke of Wellington |
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| In office 31 January 1823 – 20 April 1827 |
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| Monarch | George IV |
| Preceded by | Nicholas Vansittart |
| Succeeded by | George Canning |
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| Born | 1 November 1782 London |
| Died | 28 January 1859 (aged 76) Putney Heath, London |
| Political party | Tory |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon, PC (1 November 1782 – 28 January 1859), better known with the title The 1st Viscount Goderich, was a British statesman and Prime Minister.
He was born to the 2nd Baron Grantham and his wife, the former Lady Mary Yorke. After studying at Harrow and St John's College, Cambridge,[1] Robinson entered Parliament in 1806. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1812, and served in various minor positions in the government of Lord Liverpool, including joint-Paymaster of the Forces, from which position he sponsored the Corn Laws of 1815, before entering the Cabinet in 1818 as President of the Board of Trade. In 1823 Robinson succeeded Nicholas Vansittart as Chancellor of the Exchequer. While he held this position he was called "Prosperity Robinson" by the sarcastic journalist William Cobbett. William Cobbett also gave him the name "Goody Goderich" during an economic crisis in 1825.
In 1827 he was raised to the Peerage as Viscount Goderich, of Nocton in the County of Lincoln, and served as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies and Leader of the House of Lords in George Canning's short-lived government. On Canning's death Goderich succeeded him as leader of a tenuous coalition of moderate Tories - also known as the Canningites and Whigs, but it only lasted a few months and did not even meet Parliament. Goderich had been an able minister but when it came to leading he was unsure and the government couldn't be run effectively as a number of Tory MPs stepped in to become the unofficial Prime Minister in an effort to help Goderich run the country. It is reported that when Goderich resigned to King George IV he burst into tears and the King had to lend Goderich a handkerchief as he didn't have one. Goderich was succeeded by the Duke of Wellington.
In 1830 Goderich moved over to the Whigs and joined Lord Grey's cabinet, again as Colonial Secretary. In 1833 he was created Earl of Ripon, and became Lord Privy Seal. But the next year he broke with the Whigs over Irish church reform.
He later served in Sir Robert Peel's second administration as President of the Board of Trade (1841–1843) and then as President of the Board of Control (1843–1846).
His son, George, Viscount Goderich (who succeeded him as Earl of Ripon and was later created Marquis of Ripon), was a noted Liberal statesman and Cabinet Minister.
Lord Ripon served as President of the Royal Geographical Society from 1830 to 1833, and President of the Royal Society of Literature from 1834 to 1845. [2]
Lord Goderich's Government, September 1827 – January 1828
- Lord Goderich - First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Lords
- Lord Lyndhurst - Lord Chancellor
- The Duke of Portland - Lord President of the Council
- Lord Carlisle - Lord Privy Seal
- Lord Lansdowne - Secretary of State for the Home Department
- Lord Dudley - Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
- William Huskisson - Secretary of State for War and the Colonies and Leader of the House of Commons
- John Charles Herries - Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Lord Anglesey - Master-General of the Ordnance
- Charles Grant - President of the Board of Trade and Treasurer of the Navy
- Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn - President of the Board of Control
- William Sturges Bourne - First Commissioner of Woods and Forests
- Lord Bexley - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
- Lord Palmerston - Secretary at War
References
- ^ Robinson, the Hon. Frederick John in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
- ^ Wright, Thomas (1846). Biographia Britannica Literaria: Or, Biography of Literary Characters of Great Britain and Ireland. J.W. Parker.
External links
- More about Frederick Robinson, Viscount Goderich on the Downing Street website.
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