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Secretary of State for War and the Colonies

Great Britain · Government / Whig Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

5Records

1708–1809Date range

5Named people

0Places

Chronological records

1708

Robert Walpole Orford, 1st1708

Government / Whig Party Government

Appointed Secretary of State for War, a close adviser of the Duke of Marlborough, commander of the War of the Spanish Succession

1724

Henry Pelham1724

Government / Whig Party Government

Appointed Secretary for War

1794

Henry Dundas1794

Government / Whig Party Government

Appointed Secretary for War

1805

Stewart Castlereagh1805

Government / Whig Party Government

Appointed Secretary of State for War and the Colonies

1809

Henry John Temple Palmerston, 3rd1809

Government / Whig Party Government

Appointed Secretary for War

Names involved

Henry DundasHenry John Temple Palmerston, 3rdHenry PelhamRobert Walpole Orford, 1stStewart Castlereagh

Provenance

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