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The Fox-North Coalition fell in December 1783, after Fox had introduced Edmund Burke's bill to reform the East India Company to gain the patronage he so greatly lacked while the King refused to support him.
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The Fox-North Coalition rose to power in a Government nominally headed by William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland.
He raised the issue of parliamentary reform in order to strain the uneasy Fox-North Coalition, which included both supporters and detractors of reform.
He retained the support of the King, who would not entrust the reins of power to the Fox-North Coalition.
The Fox-North Coalition came to power on 2 April 1783, in spite of the King's resistance.
If the trial could demonstrate the misrule of British India by Hastings and the East India Company more widely, then Fox ’ s India Bill of 1784 – the point on which the Fox-North Coalition had been dismissed by the King – would be vindicated.
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He held office as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1783 in the Fox-North Coalition and between 1806 and 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents.
He served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between April and December 1783 in the Fox-North Coalition headed by the Duke of Portland and was sworn of the Privy Council the same year.
He generally voted with the Parliamentary opposition, except that when the Fox-North Coalition came to power, he supported the government nominally headed by William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland.
He was a supporter of Lord Rockingham, and subsequently of the Fox-North Coalition that brought the Duke of Portland to power.
At this the rest of the government resigned, and after a period of political chaos the short-lived Fox-North Coalition was formed in April 1783.
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Fox-North and 1783
He opposed the Fox-North coalition and returned to political office with Pitt, serving as Home Secretary from 1783 to 1789.
In 1783, when the Fox-North coalition came into power, Erskine entered parliament as Whig member for Portsmouth.
Fox-North and had
His suspicions had been confirmed: it seemed to him that George III had personally scuppered both the Rockingham-Shelburne and Fox-North governments, interfered in the legislative process and now dissolved Parliament when its composition inconvenienced him.
Fox-North and refused
When North resigned in March 1782, Gower was approached to form a ministry, but he refused, and he refused subsequent overtures from both Lord Shelburne and the Fox-North coalition to enter the government.
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It was only now that a genuine two-party system can be seen to emerge, with Pitt and the government on the one side, and the ousted Fox-North coalition on the other.
A constitutional crisis arose when the king dismissed the Fox-North coalition government and named Pitt to replace it.
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