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Sarah Robinson, Countess of Ripon

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Poor Goderich is quite unnerved, and in a most pitiful state. Much of this misfortune is perhaps the natural effect of his character, but it is, in the present instance, greatly aggravated by the constant worry in which he has been kept by his all but crazy wife, and by the entire ascendancy which
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behaviour of his wife. It is these character traits that may have made him such an unsuitable Prime Minister even though he was a competent politician in lower offices. After he resigned as Prime Minister in January 1828, one of his colleagues remarked that he was "quite another man who sleeps at
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called her, "a tormenting, worrying & very pretty woman; & has always ruled the Roost in her household & bullies his Lordship into her will & way; I know her as Lady Sarah Robinson;" & though she is a very nice woman, she is capricious & Sovereigns over her Lord."
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yesterday, where he had been amusing himself for three days. She sent him word she was dying, and when he arrived in the greatest haste yesterday, she was gone out airing. He was very cross, but too late.
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Theakston, K. (2010:56). After Number 10: Former Prime Ministers in British Politics. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan UK.
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Jupp, P. J.; Whittaker, Robin (reviewer) (2009) . "Robinson, Frederick John, first Viscount Goderich and first earl of Ripon (1782–1859)".
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I will not say anything about Sarah; she is too bad if she knows what she is about. Poor Mr. Robinson (Frederick) was summoned back from
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Lady Robinson's daughter Eleanor died on 31 October 1826. Her husband was made Viscount Goderich on 28 April 1827, and so she became a
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Viscountess Goderich was the subject of much criticism and gossip during her husband's premiership. In December 1827
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Lodge, E. (1838:414). “The” peerage of the British empire. United Kingdom: Saunders.
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Secretary of State, 1825-1829. (1981:1391). United States: University Press of Kentucky.
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in Nocton Hall torn down and rebuilt in memory of her husband, to a design by
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Lady Sarah arranged that all the local children could attend school for a
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after the deceased Prime Minister. Lady Goderich may have suffered from
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between 1827 and 1828. During his term in office, she was known as the
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his good nature (not to say his weakness) has allowed her to assume.
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Lady Goderich was also described as being "demanding,
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The Right Honourable

engraved
W. J. Edwards
Thomas Lawrence
Nocton Hall
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon
Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire

Portrait of Frederick Robinson
Thomas Lawrence
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Robert Hobart
Frederick J. Robinson
Ripon
Paymaster of the Forces
Lord Liverpool
President of the Board of Trade
Chancellor of the Exchequer
viscountess
First Lord of the Treasury
George Canning
George
post-natal depression
William Huskisson
Christopher Hughes
neurotic
hypochondrial

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