Rockingham
noun
1.
Second Marquis of, Charles Watson-Wentworth.
noun
1.
Marquess of, title of Charles Watson-Wentworth. 1730–82, British statesman and leader of the Whig opposition, whose members were known as the Rockingham Whigs; prime minister (1765–66; 1782). He opposed the war with the American colonists
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