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May 16, 1778
Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (born 1718)
Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness
Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness,, known before 1721 as Lord Darcy and Conyers, was a British diplomat and politician.
Secretary of State for the Southern Department
The secretary of state for the Southern Department was a position in the cabinet of the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain up to 1782, when the Southern Department became the Home Office.