Constituency Dates
Northampton 1780 – 1784
Family and Education
b. 25 Dec. 1753, 1st s. of Sir George Bridges Rodney by his 1st w. educ. Harrow 1766-7;1Ex inf. D. Spinney, Esq. Grand Tour 1773. m. 10 Apr. 1781, Anne, da. and coh. of Hon. Thomas Harley, 9s. 1da. suc. fa. as 2nd Baron Rodney 24 May 1792.
Offices Held

Ensign 3 Ft. Gds. 1773, lt. and capt. 1777, capt. and lt.-col. 1783; ret. 1792.

biography text

In 1780 Rodney was returned unopposed for Northampton on the interest of his uncle Spencer, Lord Northampton, as a stop-gap for his cousin Charles, Lord Compton, then a minor. In Parliament he constantly supported North’s Administration till its fall; voted for Shelburne’s peace preliminaries, 18 Feb. 1783; for Fox’s East India bill, 27 Nov. 1783, and both in Robinson’s list of January 1784 and Stockdale’s of 19 Mar. appears as a supporter of Pitt’s Administration. His only reported speech was on 5 June 1782 when, Fox moving a new writ for Westminster, he confirmed that his father intended to accept a peerage. Rodney did not stand in 1784, nor apparently at any other time.

He died 2 Jan. 1802.

Author
M.M.D.
Volume
Commons 1754-1790
Notes
  • 1. Ex inf. D. Spinney, Esq.