Rockingham

[rok-ing-uh m, ‐huh m]

noun

Second Marquis of, Charles Watson-Wentworth.

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Historical Examples of rockingham

I do not think I ever saw anything finer than this Rockingham Channel.
The Last Voyage
Lady (Annie Allnutt) Brassey
Rockingham Bay was passed and named, in latitude 17 degrees 59 minutes.
Captain Cook
W.H.G. Kingston
I did not blame Rockingham; he was a man of the world, so nothing manly could be expected of him.
The Crack of Doom
Robert Cromie
Then Rockingham is at rest, and your brother is on the road to it.
The Crack of Doom
Robert Cromie
Rockingham was forgotten with a suddenness and completeness that was almost ghastly.
The Crack of Doom
Robert Cromie

British Dictionary definitions for rockingham

Rockingham

noun

Marquess of, title of Charles Watson-Wentworth . 1730–82, British statesman and leader of the Whig opposition, whose members were known as the Rockingham Whigs; prime minister (1765–66; 1782). He opposed the war with the American colonists

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