..., the father of Lord George Germain, was president of the Council; Lyttelton and George Grenville were already of the Treasury Board; and Sandwich, raised by his hold on the affections of the Duke of Bedford , presided at the Admiralty; Halifax, Charles Townshend, and their colleagues, were busy with remodelling American constitutions; while Bedford, the head of the new party that was in a few years to ...