After Lord Bute, George Grenville undertook the Government.

Before he had been many months in office, he had sown the seeds of war in the colonies, wearied Parliament, and disgusted the king.

In June 1765 Grenville was dismissed.

With profound reluctance the king had no other choice than to summon Lord Rockingham, and Lord Rockingham, in a happy moment for himself and his party, was induced to offer Burke a post as his private secretary.
A government by country gentlemen is too apt to be a government of ignorance, and Lord Rockingham was without either experience or knowledge.

He felt, or friends felt for him, the advantage of having at his side a man who was chiefly known as an author in the service of Dodsley, and as having conducted the _Annual Register_ with great ability, but who even then was widely spoken of as nothing less than an encyclopaedia of political knowledge.
It is commonly believed that Burke was commended to Lord Rockingham by William Fitzherbert.