Nicholas Vansittart
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The Right Honourable The Lord Bexley PC FRS FSA |
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Portrait, oil on canvas, of Lord Bexley by Sir Thomas Lawrence.
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| Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
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In office 12 May 1812 – 31 January 1823 |
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| Monarch |
George III George IV |
| Prime Minister | The Earl of Liverpool |
| Preceded by | Spencer Perceval |
| Succeeded by | F. J. Robinson |
| Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | |
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In office 13 February 1823 – 26 January 1828 |
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| Monarch | George IV |
| Prime Minister |
The Earl of Liverpool George Canning Viscount Goderich |
| Preceded by | Charles Bathurst |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Aberdeen |
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29 April 1766 Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England |
| Died | 8 February 1851 (aged 84) Foots Cray, Kent, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Tory |
| Spouse(s) | Hon. Catherine Isabella Eden (1778–1810) |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley PC FRS FSA (29 April 1766 – 8 February 1851) was an English politician, and one of the longest-serving Chancellors of the Exchequer in British history.
The fifth son of Henry Vansittart (died 1770), the Governor of Bengal, Vansittart was born in Bloomsbury, Middlesex, and raised in Bray, Berkshire. Educated at Christ Church, Oxford, he took his degree in 1787, and was called to the bar at Lincolns Inn. From the early 1770s he was living with his mother at 60 Crooms Hill, Greenwich.
Vansittart began his public career by writing pamphlets in defence of the administration of William Pitt, especially on its financial side, and in May 1796 became Member of Parliament for Hastings, retaining his seat until July 1802, when he was returned for Old Sarum. In February 1801 he was sent on a diplomatic errand to Copenhagen, and shortly after his return was appointed joint Secretary to the Treasury, a position which he retained until the resignation of Henry Addington's ministry in April 1804. Owing to the influence of his friend, the Duke of Cumberland, he became Chief Secretary for Ireland under Pitt in January 1805, resigning his office in the following September. With Addington, now Viscount Sidmouth, he joined the government of Charles James Fox and Lord Grenville as Secretary to the Treasury in February 1806, leaving office with Sidmouth just before the fall of the ministry in March 1807.
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