Grafton

Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of (1735-1811), an English statesman descended from Charles II. In 1763 he entered practical politics as the opponent of Lord Bute, and two years later became Secretary of State in Lord Rockingham's

Government. In 1766 he was First Lord of the Treasury in Lord Chatham's Government,- and owing to Lord Chatham's illness he had to manage the Government till his resignation in 1770. In 1771-75 he was Lord Privy Seal in Lord North's Administration, and in 1782 he took the same post under his old chief, Rockingham. His name has been familiarised to the world through the bitter attacks made on him in the Letters of Junius.