1770-1828. Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool. As Prime Minister, he devolved extensive responsibility to his key ministers, including Lord Castlereagh, George Canning, the Duke of Wellington, Robert Peel, and William Huskisson. He served as PM for 15 years, four years longer than Margaret Thatcher.

• 1770: 7 June born in London; son of Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool
• Educated at Charterhouse and Oxford
• 1790: MP (Tory)
• 1793-96: Member of the Board of Control  
• 1796-1808: Known as Lord Hawkesbury 
• 1799-1801: Master of the Royal Mint
• 1801-04: Foreign Secretary in Addington's administration
• 1802: Negotiated the Treaty of Amiens signed on 27 March with Napoleonic France
• 1804-06: Home Secretary 
• 1807-09: Home Secretary 
• 1809-12: Secretary for War and the Colonies 
• 1812: 1 May, Prime Minister Spencer Perceval assassinated. The Prince Regent sought a new Prime Minister but the first four politicians he approached were unable to form ministries and Liverpool was the fifth choice of PM
• 1812: 8 June, Liverpool reticently accepts office 
• 1814-15: Urged the abolition of the slave trade at the Congress of Vienna 
• 1817: Suspended Habeas Corpus for Great Britain
• 1819: Restored the gold standard and strengthened the British monetary system 
• 1819: Introduced the Six Acts in following the Peterloo Massacre to suppress radical newspapers and meetings
• 1822: Suspended Habeas Corpus for Ireland 
• 1827: 17 February retired following a paralytic stroke
• 1828: Death on 4 December at Coombe House, Kingston upon Thames.

Liverpool was a skillful handler of the temperamental Prince Regent. He opposed parliamentary reform and desired a compromise over the Catholic Question short of full emancipation.