George Tierney
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The Right Honourable George Tierney |
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| Treasurer of the Navy | |
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In office 1803–1804 |
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| Monarch | George III |
| Prime Minister | Henry Addington |
| Preceded by | Charles Bragge |
| Succeeded by | George Canning |
| President of the Board of Control | |
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In office 1806–1807 |
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| Monarch | George III |
| Prime Minister | The Lord Grenville |
| Preceded by | Thomas Grenville |
| Succeeded by | Hon. Robert Dundas |
| Master of the Mint | |
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In office 1827–1828 |
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| Monarch | George IV |
| Prime Minister |
George Canning The Viscount Goderich |
| Preceded by | Hon. William Wellesley-Pole |
| Succeeded by | John Charles Herries |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
20 March 1761 Gibraltar |
| Died | 25 January 1830 (aged 68) Savile Row, London |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Whig |
| Alma mater | Peterhouse, Cambridge |
George Tierney PC (20 March 1761 – 25 January 1830) was an Anglo-Irish Whig politician.
Born in Gibraltar, Tierney was the son of Thomas Tierney, a wealthy Irish merchant of London, who was living in Gibraltar as prize agent. He was sent to Eton and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he took the degree of Law in 1784. He was called to the bar from Lincoln's Inn in the same year, but abandoned law and plunged into politics.
Tierney contested Colchester in 1788, when both candidates received the same number of votes, but Tierney was declared elected. He was, however, defeated in 1790. He sat for Southwark from 1796 to 1806, and then represented in turn Athlone (1806–1807), Bandon (1807–1812), Appleby (1812–1818), and Knaresborough (1818–1830).
When Charles James Fox seceded from the House of Commons, Tierney became a prominent opponent of William Pitt's policy. In May 1798, Pitt accused him of want of patriotism. A duel ensued at Putney Heath on Sunday, 27 May 1798; but neither combatant was injured.
In 1803, Tierney, partly because peace had been ratified with France, and partly because Pitt was out of office, joined the ministry of Henry Addington as Treasurer of the Navy, and was created a Privy Councillor; but this alienated many of his supporters among the middle classes, and offended most of the influential Whigs. On the death of Fox, he joined (1806) the Grenville ministry as President of the Board of Control, with a seat in the cabinet, and thus brought himself once more into line with the Whigs.
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