The English statesman Robert Barks Jenkinson, 2d Earl of Liverpool (1770-1828), served as prime minister from 1812 to 1827 and was at the center of governmental decisions during more than a quarter century of foreign and domestic crises. The eldest son...

(born June 7, 1770, London, Eng.—died Dec. 4, 1828, Fife House, Whitehall, London) British prime minister (1812–27). He entered the House of Commons in 1790 and became a leading Tory, serving as foreign secretary (1801–04), home...

Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (June 7, 1770 – December 4, 1828) was a British politician and the longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Robert Walpole held office for longer, but before the United Kingdom was...

Hammer, Paul E. J. The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585-1597 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 446 pp., $69.95, ISBN 0-521-43485-8 Publication Date: May 1999 Recent scholarship has focused on Elizabeth's later years (1585-1603)...

The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585-1597 By Paul E. J. Hammer Cambridge University Press, 1999 The second earl of Essex was the single most dominating figure in Elizabethan politics between the death...