Chancellor of the Exchequer for all of his time as prime minister. He is known as "Pitt the Younger" to distinguish him from his father, William Pitt the Elder...
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to the Pitt family by marriage since William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, had married his father's sister Hester. The younger Grenville was thus the first...
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"Chatham" or "Pitt the Elder" to distinguish him from his son William Pitt the Younger, who also served as prime minister. Pitt was also known as "the Great Commoner"...
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Henry Addington (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Wiltshire)
ahead of what would become the War of the Third Coalition. He was forced from office in favour of William Pitt the Younger, who had preceded Addington...
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Holwood House (category Grade I listed buildings in the London Borough of Bromley)
is on the site of an earlier building owned by William Pitt the Younger, and the grounds contain the remains of an Iron Age fort known as a "Caesar's...
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older than his famous brother William Pitt the Younger, the future prime minister. After serving as a junior officer in the American War of Independence...
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MacDonald, The Viscount Melbourne, The Duke of Newcastle, Lord Palmerston, Robert Peel, William Pitt the Younger, The Duke of Portland, The Marquess of...
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the passage of the Act through Parliament was assured. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, close to his friend William Pitt the Younger. Wilberforce was...
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Tories (British political party) (redirect from Friends of Mr Pitt)
and 1830, with William Pitt the Younger followed by Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool. The Whigs won control of Parliament in the 1831 election,...
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Camelford. The family produced two British Prime Ministers: William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, and his son William Pitt the Younger. The family's fortunes...
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Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
elevation to the peerage in 1783. He initially aligned himself with his great-uncle the Duke of Newcastle, but later joined William Pitt the Elder in opposition...
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the leader of the Portland Whigs faction, which broke with the Whig leadership of Charles James Fox and joined with William Pitt the Younger in the wake...
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definition. The first prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was William Pitt the Younger at its creation on 1 January 1801. The first...
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Combination Act 1799 (category William Pitt the Younger)
were passed under the government of William Pitt the Younger as a response to Jacobin activity and the fear of then-Home Secretary the Duke of Portland...
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Ministers: William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (William Pitt the Elder) (1708–1778), Prime Minister of Great Britain (1766–1768) William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806)...
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William Bradley Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. He is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy...
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William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806), son of the above and British prime minister (1783–1801, 1804–1806) William Pitt may also refer to: William Pitt...
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1784 British general election (category William Pitt the Younger)
The 1784 British general election resulted in William Pitt the Younger securing an overall majority of about 120 in the House of Commons of Great Britain...
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as "William Pitt the Even Younger", "Pitt the Toddler", "Pitt the Embryo", and "Pitt the Gleam in the Milkman's Eye". Benedict Cumberbatch in the 2006...
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admitted women since 2017. The Pitt Club was founded in Michaelmas term 1835, named in honour of Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, who had been a student...
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Castlereagh–Canning duel (category William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland)
orientation and joined William Pitt the Younger, who promptly recognized their political talent and supported them. Nearly of the same age, the two rapidly became...
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minister William Pitt the Younger, the act provided for the appointment of a Board of Control, and provided for a joint government of British India by the Company...
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government led by William Pitt the Younger from 1783 to 1801 Second Pitt ministry, the British government led by William Pitt the Younger from 1804 to 1806 Premiership...
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High Tory (category Political history of the United Kingdom)
conservatism derived from the Whig Edmund Burke and William Pitt the Younger marks a watershed from the "higher" or legitimist Toryism that was allied to...
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minister of the 19th century. As of 2023, none of Liverpool's successors has served longer. He is third only to William Pitt the Younger and Robert Walpole...
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1796 British general election (category William Pitt the Younger)
Parliament of the United Kingdom (1801–02). Great Britain had been at war with France since 1792. The Prime Minister since 1783, William Pitt the Younger, led...
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Gillray. The popular print depicts caricatures of the British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger and the newly-crowned Emperor of France Napoleon, both...
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William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806), British statesman William Heberden the Younger (1767–1845), British physician William Godwin the Younger (1803–1832)...
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List of successful votes of no confidence in British governments (redirect from 1784 vote of no confidence against the government of William Pitt the Younger)
government. The 1784 vote of no confidence in the government of William Pitt the Younger occurred in February 1784. William Pitt the Younger became Prime...
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Savile Row (redirect from The New Bespoke Movement)
William Pitt the Younger and Irish-born playwright and MP Richard Brinsley Sheridan were residents. Tailors started doing business in the area in the...
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