Lord Liverpool Signed Free Front 4 Feb 1829 mounted to a fine stipple antique engraved portrait, engraved by W.T.Fry after Sir Thomas Lawrence. Published by Peter Jackson circa 1850.
Lord Liverpool Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (7 June 1770 – 4 December 1828) was a British politician and the longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since the Union with Ireland in 1801.During his time as Prime Minister from 1812 to 1827, Liverpool became known for epressive measures introduced to maintain order, but also for steering the country through the period of radicalism and unrest that followed the Napoleonic Wars Important events during his time as Prime Minister included the War of 1812, the Congress of Vienna, the Corn Laws, the Peterloo Massacre and the emerging issue of Catholic Emancipation.
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