He was a notable Tory politician of the late Stuart period, who served under Queen Anne as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council.
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury | Marquess | Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings | Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley | Marquess of Bute | Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire | James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie | David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter | Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster | Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey | Frederick Hervey, 8th Marquess of Bristol | Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava | Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol | Robert Wynn Carrington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire | Marquess of Rockingham | Marquess of Lansdowne | marquess | John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu | Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon | Paul Marquess | Marquess of Milford Haven | Marquess of Anglesey | Marquess of Ailsa | John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby | John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair | William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton | Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow | Normanby | Marquess of Sligo |
The title of Duke of Buckingham and Normanby was created in 1703 for John Sheffield, Marquess of Normanby, a notable Tory politician of the late Stuart period, who served under Queen Anne as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council.