Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester, PC, PC, FRS, styled The Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1768 until 1783, The Right Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1783 to 1801, and then known as Lord Pelham until
2nd Earl Of Chichester
Mary Henrietta Juliana Pelham née Osborne (Richard Cosway)
Chief Secretary for Ireland
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The Chief Secretary for Ireland was a political office in the Dublin Castle administration. Nominally subordinate to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and officially the "Chief Secretary to the Lord Lie
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester
…appointed Surveyor-General of the Ordnance under the Duke of Richmond as Master-General of the Ordnance in Lord Rockingham's second ministry (1782), and Chief Secretary for Ireland in the coalition ministry of 1783 (when he was also appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland). He represented Carrick in the Irish House of Commons…
The Chief Secretary's office in Dublin Castle. The Chief Secretary's residence was the Chief Secretary's Lodge in the Phoenix Park, next to the Viceregal Lodge.
Chief Sectretary's Lodge, Phoenix Park, now the Deerfield Residence of the U.S. Ambassador
Edmund Spenser oil painting
Sir Henry Wotton