Earl of Liverpool is a title that has been created twice in British history. The first time was in the
Peerage of Great Britain in 1796 for
Charles Jenkinson, 1st Baron Hawkesbury, a favourite of King
George III (see
Jenkinson Baronets for earlier history of the family). He had already been made
Baron Hawkesbury, of Hawkesbury in the County of Gloucester, in 1786, and succeeded as seventh Baronet of Walcot and Hawkesbury in 1790. His eldest son, the second Earl, served as
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1812 to 1827. The peerages became extinct in 1851 on the death of the latter's half-brother, the third Earl, while the baronetcy was inherited by a cousin (see Jenkinson Baronets).