Charles Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool

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Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool, PC (May 29, 1784 – October 3, 1851) was a British politician.

Liverpool was the son of Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool by his second wife Catherine Bisshopp, and the younger half-brother of Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool. During the Napoleonic Wars he notably served as a volunteer in the Austrian Army at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805.

Liverpool was elected Member of Parliament for Sandwich in 1807, a seat he held until 1812, and then sat for Bridgnorth from 1812 to 1818 and for East Grinstead from 1818 to 1828. He held office under the Duke of Portland as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1807 to 1809 and under Spencer Perceval as Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies from 1809 to 1810. Liverpool succeeded to the Earldom of Liverpool in 1828 on the death of his elder brother and took his seat in the House of Lords. In 1841 he was invested a member of the Privy Council and appointed Lord Steward of the Household in the government of Sir Robert Peel, a post he held until 1846.

Lord Liverpool died in October 1851, aged 67. On his death the Barony of Hawkesbury and Earldom of Liverpool became extinct. However, the Baronetcy of Hawkesbury (created in 1661) also held by the late Earl, survived, and was passed on to a cousin. In 1905 the Earldom of Liverpool was revived for the Liberal politician Cecil George Savile Foljambe. He was the son of George Savile Foljambe and his wife Selina Charlotte, daughter of Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool, and had already been created Baron Hawkesbury in 1893.

Court offices
Preceded by John Murray	Page of Honour 1789–1794	Succeeded by William Dansey
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir Horatio Mann, Bt Thomas Francis Fremantle	Member of Parliament for Sandwich with Peter Rainier 1807–1808 John Spratt Rainier 1808–1812 1807–1812	Succeeded by Joseph Maryatt Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke
Preceded by Isaac Hawkins Browne Thomas Whitmore	Member of Parliament for Bridgnorth with Thomas Whitmore 1812–1818	Succeeded by Thomas Whitmore Sir Thomas John Tyrwhitt Jones
Preceded by George William Gunning Lord Strathavon	Member of Parliament for East Grinstead with Lord Strathavon 1818–1828	Succeeded by Lord Strathavon Viscount Holmesdale
Political offices
Preceded by The Earl of Erroll	Lord Steward of the Household 1841–1846	Succeeded by The Earl Fortescue
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Robert Jenkinson	Earl of Liverpool 1828–1851	Extinct
Baronetage of England
Preceded by Robert Jenkinson	Baronet (of Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire) 1828–1851	Succeeded by Charles Jenkinson