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About Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, usually known as Lord Castlereagh, derived from the courtesy title Viscount Castlereagh by which he was styled from 1796 to 1821, was a British statesman. As secretary to the Viceroy in Ireland, he worked to suppress the Rebellion of 1798 and to secure passage in 1800 of the Irish Act of Union. As the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom from 1812, he was central to the management of the coalition that defeated Napoleon, and was British plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna. In the post-war government of Lord Liverpool, Castlereagh was seen to support harsh measures against agitation for reform, and he ended his life an isolated and unpopular figure.
Everything about Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh →- Occupation
- politician, diplomat, bretteur
- Position held
- member of the 4th Parliament of the United Kingdom, Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Ireland, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Leader of the House of Commons
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- June 18, 1769
- Died
- August 12, 1822