Background
Dorchester was the second son of Joseph Damer, 1st Earl of Dorchester.
Dorchester was the second son of Joseph Damer, 1st Earl of Dorchester.
He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his Master of Arts in 1767.
He served as Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1794 and 1795. He also represented Naas in the Irish House of Commons between 1795 and 1798 and served under William Pitt the Younger as Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1794 and 1795. He was sworn of the English Privy Council in 1794 and of the Irish Privy Council in 1795.
He succeeded his father in the earldom on 12 January 1798 and entered the House of Lords.
On 25 June 1798, he was appointed colonel of the Dorset Militia in succession to Lord Rivers, but resigned in late 1799. Lord Dorchester was also Lord Lieutenant of Dorset, and colonel of the Dorsetshire Yeomanry Cavalry, from 1803 to 1808.
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Lord Dorchester sat as Member of Parliament for Cricklade between 1768 and 1774, for Anstruther Burghs between 1778 and 1780, for Dorchester between 1780 and 1790 and for Malton between 1792 and 1798.
