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Son of Henry Vansittart, sometime governor of Bengal, Vansittart took his MA degree at Oxford in 1791, and was called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn, where he became a bencher in 1812. He was MP for Hastings in 1796, and in 1801 was sent as minister plenipotentiary with Parker and Nelson to Copenhagen to endeavour to detach Denmark from the Northern Alliance. In April 1801 he was appointed joint-secretary to the treasury by Addington.
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Tedder, H.R. (2018). Vansittart, Nicholas, Lord Bexley (1766–1851). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1770
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