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Hace 4 días · His life was relatively short, but his impact was long-lasting. Pitt‘s biography is essential to understanding how Great Britain navigated the momentous upheavals of the late 1700s and emerged as one of the world‘s preeminent powers. The Making of a Political Prodigy. William Pitt the Younger was born on May 28, 1759, at Hayes Place in Kent.
Hace 3 días · William Pitt the Younger, also known as Pitt the Younger, was a prominent British statesman who served as the Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1783 to 1801 and again from 1804 to 1806. He was the youngest person to ever hold this position at the age of 24, and his early rise to power earned him the nickname “the Younger.”
Hace 4 días · Palo Alto, CA, Stanford University Press, 1996, ISBN: 9780804727549; 928pp.; Price: £70.00. Professor Jeremy Black, review of The Younger Pitt. III. The Consuming Struggle, (review no. 11) By any standards. Ehrman's Pitt is a major achievement. The third volume, covering the years 1797 until Pitt's death in 1806, is no exhausted sequel, no ...
Hace 2 días · A more famous addition was that associated with the name of William Pitt the younger. The Pitt Memorial Committee, having a large surplus after defraying the cost of the statue in Hanover Square, London, offered to the University 'a considerable sum of money for the erection of an handsome building connected with the University Press'.
Hace 5 días · To ensure continued political legitimacy, the elite became committed to drinking staggering amounts of port. Three, four, or more bottle-a-day men were notorious, including Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger. When these avid drinkers began what often evolved into ten to twelve-hour drinking sessions, their avowed goal was ...
Hace 3 días · William Pitt the Younger, born on May 28, 1759, was the youngest Prime Minister in British history, taking office at the age of 24. His political career spanned over 40 years, during which he made a significant impact on British history.
Hace 4 días · A capital story in connection with the Admiralty is told by Mr. Cyrus Redding, in his "Fifty Years' Recollections:"—Mr. Croker, the Secretary of that department, happening to dine one day at the Pavilion at Brighton, under the Regency, entered, in the course of the evening, into conversation with the Duke of Clarence.
