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Definition of Rockingham

1. Noun. English statesman who served as prime minister and who opposed the war with the American colonies (1730-1782).

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Literary usage of Rockingham

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1902)
"Sept 16 Married Nathan Pratt of Fitzwilliam & Dolly Clark of Rockingham • Nov. 15 Married Sullivan Els worth & Hannah Blanchard of Rockingham Nov. ..."

2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"Rockingham had always advocated drastic measures of royal and administrative economy, and he was now to undertake the ever dangerous experiment of ..."

3. Pottery and Porcelain: A Guide to Collectors by Frederick Litchfield (1900)
"... Rockingham flower.pots in the author's possession. griffin was adopted, it being the Rockingham crest, but the word Rockingham (capitals) is also found. ..."

4. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1783)
"... that the Rockingham connection was the only .one by which the .country could be ... which the Rockingham party perceived of forming a junction with the ..."

5. The Royal Forests of England by John Charles Cox (1905)
"CHAPTER XIX THE FOREST OF Rockingham THE wealth of unused material in connection with all the forests of Northamptonshire, particularly with regard to ..."

6. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"Mr. Dun- ning's Resolutions on the influence of the Crown, 1780. Fall of Lord North's Ministry, 1782. Rockingham again Premier, 1782. ..."

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