Rockingham believed that the revolution in British politics since George III's accession was harmful to the country, since it removed the Whigs from their ascendancy which had settled the constitution and secured the House of Hanover on the British throne.

Rockingham wrote to Augustus Keppel on 3 November 1779, saying that he believed the war against American could not be won, that the government was corrupt but not unpopular, and that the longer this continued the greater the danger to the liberties and the constitution of Britain: " Perhaps a total change of men and measures, & system in the Government: of this country might have effect on the councils of some foreign countries ... who might think that it was no longer a Court system to combat, but that the whole nation wd ; united & make the utmost efforts ".

The closest train to Halifax, the overnight passenger train from Saint John, NB is believed to have halted at Rockingham Station, located on the shore of the basin, approximately from the downtown terminal.

Rockingham was allied to the Duke of Newcastle and his supporters, whilst the new King had a favourite in Lord Bute.

Over the next several years, Rockingham gradually became the leader of those of Newcastle's supporters who were unwilling to reconcile themselves to the premierships of Bute and his successor, George Grenville.

The most living former Prime Ministers at any one time has been 5, which has happened several times: the first time was between Jan and Nov 1770, while Lord North was in office, and The Earl of Bute, George Grenville, the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Pitt the Elder, and the 3rd Duke of Grafton were still alive ( Grenville died in Nov 1770 ); the most recent was between Nov 1990 and May 1995, while John Major was in office, and Douglas-Home, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan and Thatcher were still alive ( Wilson died in May 1995 ).

Rockingham supporters protested the elections to the territorial governor, on the grounds the laborers from Dubuque were not Scott County residents.

On 7 July 150 supporters of Rockingham met at Fitzwilliam's house and decided to withdraw support for Lord Shelburne's administration.

Associated with the aristocratic Whig party of Lord Rockingham, Portland served as Lord Chamberlain of the Household in Rockingham's first Government ( 1765 – 1766 ) and then as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in Rockingham's second ministry ( April – August 1782 ); he resigned from Lord Shelburne's ministry along with other supporters of Charles James Fox following Rockingham's death.

Fitzwilliam was one of the leading supporters of the Fox-North coalition government, being offered the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland and a revived Marquessate of Rockingham by the Duke of Portland.

Murray wanted Rockingham to take after Sir Walter Raleigh.

To general astonishment, he refused to abandon his friends and to take office under Chatham, who succeeded Rockingham in August 1766.

He had, however, explicitly pledged himself to Rockingham and his party not to take office with Grafton.

The plan called for the creation of five ' sub-regional ' retail centres ( Fremantle, Joondalup, Midland, Armadale and Rockingham ) which would form the commercial and economic focus of each ' node ', and take the retail burden away from the CBD.

* Paul Langford, The First Rockingham Administration.

* Paul Langford, The First Rockingham Administration.

Historical marker for Searcy & Moore gun factory, Hogans Creek, Rockingham County

* Rockingham County Business & Technology Center

Rockingham is a modern motorsport venue in the UK and Europe's fastest racing circuit, hosting corporate driving days, driver training, conferencing & exhibitions, vehicle manufacturing events, track days, testing, driving experiences and motorsport.

" Party and Burke: The Rockingham Whigs ," Government & Opposition, April 1967, Vol.

Most noticeably, Rockingham will return to NASCAR as part of the Truck Series and K & N Pro Series.

At the end of 1925 ACL operated 4924 miles of road, not including its flock of subsidiaries ; after some merging, mileage at the end of 1960 was 5570 not including A & WP, CN & L, East Carolina, Georgia, Rockingham, and V & CS.

* O ' Gorman, Frank, The Rise of Party in England: The Rockingham Whigs 1760 – 1782 ( London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1975 )

< li > Summer Science Camps are conducted at all elementary schools through a contribution from Merck & Company, Inc. to the Rockingham Educational Foundation, Inc.

Rockingham Castle was a popular haunt of writer Charles Dickens who was a great friend of Richard & Levinia Watson, ancestors of the current family.

Transperth's 825, 532 & 522 route buses pass through the suburb of Coogee, and connect it with Fremantle, Rockingham and Cockburn Central.

Outside of Parliament Rockingham and his secretary and member of Parliament, Edmund Burke, organized London merchants who in turn started a committee of correspondence itself to support repeal of the Stamp Act by urging merchants throughout the country to contact their local representatives in Parliament concerning repeal.

Between January 17 and 27, Rockingham shifted the attention from constitutional arguments to economic by presenting petitions from all over the country complaining of the economic repercussions felt throughout the country.

Rockingham wrote to his father that Cumberland " blamed me for my disobedience, yet as I came with a design of saving my King and country ... it greatly palliated my offence ".

He was consulted on the state of American affairs by such notable men as the Marquis of Rockingham with whom he spent a week at his country esate.

Raunds is close to Stanwick Lakes ; a country park developed from gravel pits and managed by the Rockingham Forest Trust.

" The story, written by Leo Dougherty, noted that Andy Hillenburg, the current owner of Rockingham Speedway, went across the country from Massachusetts to Florida to California collecting race cars for the film.

In 1782 he inherited the Watson-Wentworth estates ( including Wentworth Woodhouse ) on the death of his uncle Lord Rockingham, which made him one of the greatest landowners in the country.

On 8 July 1776 he asked Lord Rockingham to arrange for a remonstrance to be sent to the King when war broke out in America, so the Americans would see " that there is still in the country a body of men of the first rank and importance, who would still wish to govern them according to the old policy ".

It was not his relationship to Lord Rockingham, though no doubt an advantage, nor his princely fortune, though a yet greater, which conferred the sort of importance he enjoyed for half a century in this country.

Perth's metropolitan area is formally divided into a number of local government areas, which themselves consist of a large number of suburbs, extending from Two Rocks in the north to Rockingham in the south, and east inland to The Lakes.

The county is divided into three townships: Rockingham, Hamlet and Ellerbe.

He drifted from his rather unideological family-orientated politics into the orbit of the Rockingham Whig party.

After the fall of the Rockingham government in 1783, Burgoyne withdrew more and more into private life.

The march of the Jacobite army into northern England caused the Wentworth household to flee to Doncaster and Rockingham rode from Wentworth to Carlisle to join the Duke of Cumberland in pursuit of the " Young Pretender ".

Thirty Spanish birds were reintroduced into Rockingham Forest near Corby in 2000, and by 2010, the RSPB estimated that over 200 chicks had been reared from that initial release.

( Young ) Rockingham was one of the first bloodhorses to be imported into Australia, c. 1797.

On 7 May 2009, a boundary realignment of Cooloongup and Hillman approved by the Minister for Lands incoporated the Rockingham Train Station into Rockingham.

The board carried on this work but also had long periods of inactivity, devolving into chaos after 1761 and abolished in 1782 by an act of Parliament by the Rockingham Whigs.

Rockingham's unexpected death in July 1782 led to a split in the new government with some Rockingham Whigs remaining in office under the new government of Lord Shelburne, and others going into opposition led by Charles James Fox and Edmund Burke.

That same year, its entry into the United States began with the start-up of Cascades Industries Inc. in Rockingham, North Carolina.

After Franklin, US 33 continues eastward through rural areas, then climbs steeply to cross Shenandoah Mountain at Dry River Gap at about into Rockingham County, Virginia.

They controlled trains on the mainline into Halifax which ran along the western shore of Bedford Basin from Rockingham Station to the city's passenger terminal at the North Street Station at the corner of Barrington and North Streets.

In 1999, the company continued its push into the country's urban centers when it merged with Penske, who at the time owned four speedways: Nazareth Speedway, North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham, North Carolina, Michigan International Speedway and the newly-constructed Auto Club Speedway | ( which opened as California Speedway ).

Not all of the new tracks from the Penske merger fit into the company's plans however, as Nazareth was soon closed down and Rockingham was sold.

Parsons did climb into a race car a couple of other times, the first during the 2003 Old Dominion 500 as part of Wally's World segment and he drove a ceremonial victory lap at the last fall race at Rockingham in 2003 in a car similar to the one he won the championship with.

His neoclassical mansion was purchased in 1830 by a company which converted it into an inn called The Rockingham House.

Sir Cecil Stafford-King-Harman ( 1895 – 1987 ), second ( and last ) Baronet of Rockingham, ensured that the land went back to the people of Ireland through the Irish Land Commission, who subdivided the pasture land into several farms of approximately and granted these to local people.

With the mass-resignation from the Whig Club of Burke and other conservative Whig MPs, Fitzwilliam wrote to Lady Rockingham on 28 February 1793 and spoke of the Whig party split into three factions: those who wholeheartedly support the Revolution ; those who wholeheartedly condemn it, support the government and wish for a war to destroy it ; and the third ( which Fitzwilliam identified with ) " thinking French principles ... wicked and formidable, are ready to resist them " by supporting the government's " measures of vigour " but " engaging for nothing further ".

It then continues into the town of Westminster before joining the Connecticut River at Westminster, just south of the Rockingham town line.

By the late 15th century Rockingham Castle had fallen into disrepair.

He won by a full lap at Rockingham in October, overcoming a lap deficit when a flat tire sent him into the wall.

It eventually exits onto Battleground Avenue, which takes the route north out of Greensboro and into Summerfield and Rockingham County.