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Shelburne ministry
1782–1783
Shelburne (1791)
Date formed
4 July 1782 (1782-07-04)
Date dissolved
26 March 1783 (1783-03-26)
People and organisations
Monarch
George III
Prime Minister
Lord Shelburne
Total no. of members
16 appointments
Member parties
Chathamites
Rockingham Whigs
Status in legislature
Majority (coalition)
282 / 558 (51%)
Opposition parties
Foxites
Grenvillites[citation needed]
Opposition leaders
Charles James Fox[1]
Lord North[1]
History
Legislature terms
15th GB Parliament
Predecessor
Second Rockingham ministry
Successor
Fox–North coalition
This is a list of the principal holders of government office during the premiership of the Earl of Shelburne between July 1782 and April 1783.
Upon the fall of the North ministry in March 1782, Whig Lord Rockingham became Prime Minister for a second time. He died in office four months later, and Home Secretary Lord Shelburne was invited to form a government. However, Charles James Fox and several other former Rockinghamites (including Cavendish and Burke) refused to serve under Shelburne and went into opposition. The Foxites allied with the supporters of Lord North to bring down the government, and the Fox–North coalition came to power in April 1783. This government did not long survive the hostility of King George III, and many of Shelburne's ministers returned to office under the leadership of William Pitt the Younger in December 1783, though Shelburne himself was consoled with the title Marquess of Lansdowne.
^ abSheridan 1806, p. 12.
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