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| | ROBERT STEWART, 2ND MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY - LoveToKnow Article on ROBERT STEWART, 2ND MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | , 2ND MARQUESS OF (1769-1822), British statesman, was the eldest son of Robert Stewart of Ballylawn Castle, in Donegal, and Mount Stewart in Down, an Ulster landowner, of kin to the Galloway Stewarts, who became baron, viscount, earl and marquess in the peerage of Ireland. |
 | | His father accepted, at Portlands request, an Irish marquessate, on the understanding that in the future he or his heirs might claim the same rank in the Imperial Legislature; so that Castlereagh was able to sit in the House of Commons as Marquess In 1821-1822. |
 | | Wilberforce discussed with Pitt the possibility of sending out Castlereagh to India as governor-general, when the friction between Lord Wellesley and the directors became grave; but Pitt objected, as the plan would remove Castlereagh from the House of Commons, which should be the theatre of his future fame. |
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