Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend was appointed Secretary of State under the reign of a man who died in what year?
Whig government, 1714–1717 Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend was appointed Secretary of State for the Northern Department by George I in September 1714. He was the de facto leader of this Whig ministry as Northern Secretary until 1717, when he was demoted to Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in favour of the first Stanhope–Sunderland ministry after being outmaneuvered by his rival Whigs.
George North, 3rd Earl of Guilford George Augustus North, 3rd Earl of Guilford, FRS (11 September 1757 – 20 April 1802), known as the Honourable George North until 1790 and as Lord North from 1790 to 1792, was a British politician.