 When Parliament was dissolved in 1780 , Thurlow ensured that Kenyon was returned as a Member of Parliament for Hindon . In April 1782 , on the formation of the Rockingham government , Kenyon was made Attorney @-@ General for England and Wales , despite having never sat in the lower office of Solicitor @-@ General or spoken in Parliament . As Attorney General he spoke on only one subject , on 18 June 1782 , in regards to the amount of money owed to the Exchequer by the Paymaster of the Forces . This provoked the opposition of Charles James Fox , whose father , Lord Holland , had profited greatly by that office ; Kenyon 's programme could have ruined Fox by making him liable for <unk> his father 's profits as Paymaster . On the death of Rockingham Kenyon continued in his post under the Shelburne Ministry , but left office in April 1783 when that government fell to the Fox @-@ North Coalition . He instead allied himself with William Pitt the Younger , leading the opposition to the first Act of the new government and strongly supporting an opposition bill to reform the Exchequer . When the new government was dismissed on 19 December and Pitt took control , Kenyon was again made Attorney @-@ General . He again took the lead on the issue of the Paymaster of the Forces , and commanded that Richard Rigby , Paymaster until 1782 , " do deliver to the House an account of the balance of all public money remaining in his hands on the 13th day of November last " , something Rigby complained was against common practice . 
