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The Marquis of Rockingham was a man of modest demeanor, but he inspired respect among the aristocracy and intense loyalty from his friends. Tenaciously, he had held his party together for 16 years against the power of the Court and Treasury Party and the reluctance of the independent members to oppose the ministry of the day without extreme provocation. Rockingham knew the King was hostile, his Cabinet was divided, and the parliamentary support of his government was likely to disappear once peace was made. He expected that his tenure in office would be short, but the changes that he intended would make it easier for an organized Opposition to check the influence of the Crown in the future.
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Charles R. Middleton, The Administration of British Foreign Policy, 1782–1846 (Durham, NC, 1977).
R. R. Nelson, The Home Office, 1782–1801 (Durham, NC, 1969). Shelburne used the opportunity to pass legislation that required each officer of the Crown in the colonies to discharge the duties of his office in person (22 Geo. III, c. 75).
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Betty Kemp, ‘Crewe’s Act, 1782,’ English Historical Review (1953), 68:258–63.
John Cannon, The Fox-North Coalition: Crisis of the Constitution, 1782–4 (Cambridge, 1969), 30.
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Reitan, E.A. (2007). The Rockingham Ministry, 1782. In: Politics, Finance, and the People. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230211032_6
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