Sir Duncan Amory, Lord Kensington.
Sir Duncan Amory, later Lord Kensington was the Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1839.
Amory led the Tory Party to victory in the 1839 elections, while Britain was suffering from the effects of the financial panic caused by the collapse of Barings Bank four years earlier. The Tories drafted important banking and tariff legislation to end the economic downturn, but the legislation was held up by an anti-slavery faction within the party. Amory agreed to meet their demands, calling for the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire, and offering administrative and financial aid to any manumission programs enacted within the Empire. This allowed Willie Lloyd of the Southern Confederation to draft the Lloyd Bill of 1840 offering compensated manumission of all Negro slaves in the S.C.
In the wake of the Concordia Convention and the Brant Convention of 1841 in the Confederation of North America, Amory led the debate in the British Parliament granting the C.N.A.'s Grand Council the power to amend the Britannic Design to create a more unified North American nation. The result was the Burgoyne Conference of the summer of 1842, which drafted the Second Britannic Design. Amory was able to win passage for the Second Design in Parliament, creating a unified autonomous government for the C.N.A.
Amory was eventually raised to the peerage as Lord Kensington, and it was by this name that he was generally known to later generations. In 1883 the Michigan City Dispatch compared Governor-General John McDowell to Kensington as one of the great reformers of the English-speaking world.