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About William Wickham
William Wickham PC PC (Ire) was a British spymaster and a director of internal security services during the French Revolutionary Wars. He was credited with disrupting radical conspiracies in England but, appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, failed in 1803 to anticipate a republican insurrection in Dublin. He ended his career in government service in 1804, resigning his post in Ireland where, privately, he denounced government policy as unjust and oppressive.
Everything about William Wickham →- Occupation
- diplomat, politician, jurist
- Position held
- member of the 3rd Parliament of the United Kingdom, Member of the Privy Council of Ireland, ambassador of the United Kingdom to Switzerland, member of the 2nd Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- October 1761, November 11, 1761
- Died
- October 22, 1840