Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden KP, PC PC (I) (27 October 1788 - 20 March 1870), styled Viscount Jocelyn between 1797 and 1820, was an Irish Tory politician and supporter of Protestant causes. Jocelyn was the son of Robert Jocelyn, 2nd Earl of Roden, and Frances Theodosia, daughter of the Very Reverend Robert Bligh, Dean of Elphin. An ardent conservative, Jocelyn was Member of Parliament for County Louth from 1806 to 1807 and again from 1810 to 1820, when he succeeded his father in the earldom. In March 1812 he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Treasurer of the Household under Spencer Perceval, an office he retained when Lord Liverpool became Prime Minister in June 1812 after Perceval's assassination.