Edmund Burke was the private secretary to the Marquis of Rockingham and official pamphleteer to the Rockingham branch of the Whig Party.

Earnhardt's team was re-christened as the No. 29 team, with the same sponsor but with a new look ( a reversed color scheme-white with black numerals and a black stripe on the bottom ) for the following races at Rockingham and Las Vegas.

The Stock Car Speed Association ASCAR or Days of Thunder was a " Nascar " style racing series based at Rockingham, United Kingdom, though the series did also race at the Lausitzring in Germany as well.

In the following year he supported with great power the proposal of the Rockingham administration for the repeal of the American Stamp Act, arguing that it was unconstitutional to impose taxes upon the colonies.

In July 1766 Rockingham was dismissed, and Pitt was entrusted by the King with the task of forming a government entirely of his own selection.

Fluger claimed to have been a Yankee native of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and was a former militia colonel.

The Washington speech was widely circulated and read throughout New Hampshire, and it led to Webster's 1812 selection to the Rockingham Convention, an assembly that sought to declare formally the state's grievances with President James Madison and the federal government.

He was a member of the drafting committee and was chosen to compose the Rockingham Memorial to be sent to Madison.

The first winner was an unnamed filly owned by the event's organiser, the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham.

It was suggested that it should be called the Rockingham Stakes in honour of the host, the Marquess of Rockingham, but the Marquess proposed that it should be named instead after Anthony St. Leger.

After Lord North's ministry collapsed in 1782, the Whig Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham was appointed Prime Minister.

Lord Rockingham died only three months after coming to power ; he was succeeded by another Whig, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne.

It was created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1788 from parts of Augusta, Hardy, and Rockingham Counties and was named for Edmund Pendleton ( 1721 – 1803 ), a distinguished Virginia statesman and jurist.

Pendleton County was created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1788 from parts of Augusta, Hardy, and Rockingham Counties and was named for Edmund Pendleton, a distinguished Virginia statesman and jurist.

Rockingham County was established in 1778 from Augusta County.

Harrisonburg was incorporated as a city in 1916 and separated from Rockingham County ( all cities in Virginia are independent cities ), but it remains the county seat.

The same year, immediately to the north of Rockingham County, Dunmore County, named for Virginia's last Royal Governor, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, an unpopular figure, was renamed.

However, long their political supporter in the British Parliament, the Marquess of Rockingham was a popular figure with the citizens of the new United States.

Page County was formed in 1831 from Shenandoah and Rockingham counties.

Later on, he allied himself with Newcastle and the Old Whigs, and served as Lord President in the Rockingham administration ( 1765 – 1766 ).

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 ".

Rockingham resigned as Lord of the Bedchamber on 3 November 1762 in protest at the King's policies and other Whigs associated with the Duke of Newcastle did the same.

The king's dislike of Grenville, as well as his general lack of parliamentary support, led to his dismissal in 1765, and, following negotiations conducted through the medium of the king's uncle, the Duke of Cumberland, Lord Rockingham was appointed Prime Minister.

Rockingham appointed his allies Henry Seymour Conway and the Duke of Grafton as secretaries of state.

The old Rockingham party fragmented, with Fox and the Duke of Portland leading a coalition of Whigs.

The Duke of Richmond was appointed British ambassador extraordinary in Paris in 1765, and in the following year he briefly served as Southern Secretary in the Rockingham Whig administration, resigning office on the accession to power of The Earl of Chatham.

The king refused, having promised the reversion of the post to the Duke of Cumberland, but obtained Granby's retention as Master-General of the Ordnance in the new Rockingham ministry, although Granby did not co-operate with the ministry and voted against the repeal of the Stamp Act.

After Rockingham's death, the Duke of Portland became the head of the Rockingham Whig party.

Keppel was by family connection and personal preference a strong supporter of the Whig connection, led by the Marquess of Rockingham and the Duke of Richmond.

He was a supporter of Lord Rockingham, and subsequently of the Fox-North Coalition that brought the Duke of Portland to power.

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 ).

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.

* 1761 ( coronation of George III ): The 2nd Marquess of Rockingham ( acting as deputy to the 9th Duke of Norfolk )

Rockingham believed that Bute and his supporters wanted to take " the whole Administration & Government of this country into their hands " and wanted Newcastle to resign now before he would be inevitably disposed of.

Rockingham wrote to Newcastle:

Devonshire resigned his Lord Lieutenancy of Derbyshire in solidarity with Newcastle and Rockingham when they were dismissed from their Lord Lieutenancies.

Rockingham shared many similarities with Newcastle, and the two men were both wealthy Whig grandees.

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

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.

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.