page_title: Rockingham Whigs
section_title: Prominent members
hierarchical_section_title: Rockingham Whigs / Prominent members
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Charles Watson-Wentworth&#32;(1730&#8211;1782)
context_page_description: The Rockingham Whigs in 18th century British politics were a faction of the Whigs led by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, from about 1762 until his death in 1782. The Rockingham Whigs briefly held power from 1765 to 1766 and again in 1782, and otherwise were usually in opposition to the various ministries of the period.
context_section_description: Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
  Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
  Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
  Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond
  William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
  William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
  George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle
  William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough
  Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke
  Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke
  Lord John Cavendish
  Henry Seymour Conway
  William Dowdeswell
  Edmund Burke
  Augustus Keppel
  Charles James Fox
  Charles Yorke
  Sir Charles Saunders
caption: Lord Rockingham, who led the Rockingham Whigs
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