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Sitter associated with 33 portraits. Artist associated with 1 portrait. Statesman and Prime Minister. Forced by opinion on George II to save the nation in 1756, Pitt led the House of Commons and organised the victories of 1759 over France which consolidated British sea power and brought territorial gains in India and Canada. In 1761 he resigned.
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Vera Muriel White. William Pitt, the Elder - Statesman, Reforms, Legacy: Pitt fell back on his gout and his gardening. In 1765 an admirer left him a splendid estate at Burton Pynsent in Somerset, where he planted avenues of noble trees. He was frequently at Bath, where they stood up in the Pump Room when he drank the water.
Pitt’s last years were clouded by illness, yet he still appeared in the House of Lords as an elder statesman. In 1778 he made his last speech, which opposed American independence. Pitt died on May 11, 1778, in Hayes, Kent, England. He was buried in Westminster Abbey. Pitt’s son William Pitt the Younger would become prime minister in 1783.
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham was a British Whig statesman who led Britain during the Seven Years' War (known as the French and Indian War in the United States). He again led the country (holding the official title of Lord Privy Seal) between 1766–68.
2 de nov. de 2022 · William Pitt was born on 28 May 1759 to William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (often referred to as ‘the Elder’) and his wife Hester Grenville. He hailed from political stock on both sides, with his father serving as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766-68 and his maternal uncle, George Grenville, serving as Prime Minister from 1806-7.
26 de ene. de 2024 · Genealogy profile for William Pitt the Elder, Prime Minister of Great Britain The Rt Hon. William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1708 - 1778) - Genealogy Genealogy for The Rt Hon. William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1708 - 1778) family tree on Geni, with over 255 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
