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29 de dic. de 2017 · William Pitt ‘the Elder’ dominated British politics in the middle of the eighteenth century, although was only prime minister for 2 years. A wildly popular politician with great influence, he ...
11 de mar. de 2015 · William Pitt the Elder, first Earl of Chatham, was an important war leader who found it harder to govern in peace time. Born in November 1708, Pitt’s grandfather and father were both MPs and his grandfather, Thomas, had been governor of Madras. Pitt was a pupil at Eton from 1719 until 1726. He entered Trinity College, Oxford in 1727 but ...
16 de sept. de 2015 · 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. Unable to afford the expense of standing for Parliament ...
Hace 2 días · William Pitt was born on 28 May 1759 in Kent, the son of the earl of Chatham (William Pitt the Elder), himself a famous statesman. Pitt studied at Cambridge University, graduating when he was 17.
William Pitt the Younger (May 28, 1759 – January 23, 1806) was a British politician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1783 to 1801, and again from 1804 until his death (technically he was first minister, as the title of Prime Minister was not made official until 1905).
William Pitt, l'ami du peuple anglais. Héros de la victoire contre les Français durant la guerre de Sept Ans, il est parvenu au pouvoir en s'appuyant sur le « peuple » anglais et en usant du langage républicain inventé un siècle plus tôt. Portrait. W illiam Pitt l'Ancien (1708-1778) a longtemps fait figure d'emblème de l'Angleterre du ...
Hace 5 días · In office July 1766 - October 1768. Pitt became leader of the government at the outbreak of the Seven Years War (1756) and was largely responsible for Britain's success. He resigned in 1761 when the cabinet refused to attack Spain, and criticized the Treaty of Paris (1763) as too generous to France. He formed a second government in 1766 but ...
