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Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry
(18 June 1769 – 12 August 1822), usually known as
Lord Castlereagh
( ), was an Irish/British statesman. As British
Foreign Secretary
, from 1812 he was central to the management of the
coalition
that defeated
Napoleon
and was the principal British diplomat at the
Congress of Vienna
. Castlereagh was also
leader of the British House of Commons
in the
Liverpool
government from 1812 until his suicide in August 1822. Early in his career, as
Chief Secretary for Ireland
, he was involved in putting down the
Irish Rebellion of 1798
and was instrumental in securing the passage of the
Irish Act of Union of 1800
.
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