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18 de may. de 2018 · Pitt (the Younger), William (1759–1806) British statesman, prime minister (1783–1801, 1804–06). The second son of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, he entered Parliament in 1781, became chancellor of the exchequer in 1782 and shortly after became Britain 's youngest prime minister, aged 24. Pitt's reputation rests chiefly on his financial ...
16 de sept. de 2015 · William Pitt (the younger), Government Art Collection. William Pitt (the younger) was born on 28 May 1759 at Hayes Place, Kent, the second son of William Pitt (the elder), later 1st Earl of Chatham and himself Prime Minister. He matriculated at Pembroke College, Cambridge at the age of 14, and later proceeded to Lincoln’s Inn to study law.
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21 de nov. de 2023 · William Pitt the Younger grew up during these troubles and his political career would reflect these issues. Family William Pitt the Younger was born to a wealthy noble family in the mid-18th century.
As a younger son of a minor nobleman, William had no lands or fortune to inherit, and had to make his own way in life. Around the age of twelve, when his father's career was faltering, he was sent to the Château de Tancarville in Normandy to be brought up in the household of William de Tancarville , a great magnate and cousin of young William's mother.
William Hague. Knopf, 2005 - Biography & Autobiography - 556 pages. William Pitt the Younger is an illuminating biography of one of the great iconic figures in British history: the man who in 1784 at the age of twenty-four became (and so remains) the youngest Prime Minister in the history of England. In this lively and authoritative study ...
William Pitt the Younger. Pitt lived and died a bachelor, totally obsessed with political office. He was clever, single-minded, confident of his own abilities, and a natural politician. But perhaps his greatest asset in the early 1780s was his youth. He had entered Parliament in 1780 and was just 24 when he became first minister in 1783.
