F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich

Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon, PC (November 1, 1782 – January 28, 1859), styled The Honourable F. J. Robinson until 1827 and known as The Viscount Goderic between 1827 and 1833, the name by which he is best known to history, is a British politician of the Regency era.

He is Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between August 1827 and January 1828.

A member of the rural landowning aristocracy, Robinson enters politics through family connections.

In the House of Commons he rises through junior ministerial ranks, achieving cabinet office in 1818 as President of the Board of Trade.

In 1823 he is appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, a post he holds for four years.

In 1827 he is raised to the peerage, and in the House of Lords is Leader of the House and Secretary of State for War and the Colonies.

When the Prime Minister, George Canning, dies in 1827 Goderich succeeds him, but is unable to hold together Canning's fragile coalition of moderate Tories and Whigs.

He resigns after one hundred and forty=four days in office, the shortest in history for any British prime minister who does not die in office.

After leaving the premiership Goderich served in the cabinets of two of his successors, Earl Grey and Sir Robert Peel.

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