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George II (George Augustus; German: Georg August; 30 October / 9 November 1683 [a] – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death in 1760.
Frederick North, Lord North was appointed to lead the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain by King George III from 1770 to 1782. His ministry oversaw the Falklands Crisis of 1770 , the 1780 Gordon Riots and the outbreak of the American War of Independence .
May 1801 – George Legge, Lord Lewisham (from July Earl of Dartmouth) enters the Cabinet as President of the Board of Control. July 1801 – The William Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of Portland succeeds John Pitt, Earl of Chatham as Lord President (Chatham remains Master of the Ordnance).
George II of Greece (1890–1947), King of the Hellenes 1922–1924, 1935–1947 Hanover George III of the United Kingdom (1738–1820), also George III of Hanover, 1814–1820
The Cabinet has always been led by the prime minister, whose originally unpaid office as such was traditionally described as merely primus inter pares (first among equals), but today the prime minister is the preeminent head of government, with the effective power to appoint and dismiss Cabinet ministers and to control the Cabinet's agenda. The ...
Great Britain, free from Jacobite threats, from war, and from financial crises, grew prosperous, and Robert Walpole acquired the favour of George I. [48] In 1725 he persuaded the king to revive the Knighthood of the Bath and was himself invested with the order, [53] [52] and in 1726 was made a Knight of the Garter, [54] earning him the nickname ...
King George III's death on 29 January 1820 created a new governmental crisis. In a meeting held on 22 February, George Edwards suggested that the group could exploit the political situation and kill all the cabinet ministers after invading a fabricated cabinet dinner at the home of Lord Harrowby , Lord President of the Council , armed with ...
George II of Great Britain (1683–1760), King of Great Britain from 1727; George III (1738–1820), King of Great Britain and later the United Kingdom from 1760; George IV (1762–1830), King of the United Kingdom from 1820; George V (1865–1936), King of the United Kingdom from 1910; George VI (1895–1952), King of the United Kingdom from 1936