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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 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 ...
William Pitt el Joven Primer ministro de Gran Bretaña (1783-1801 y 1804-1806) Nació el 28 de mayo de 1759 en Hayes (Kent). Fue el segundo hijo de William Pitt (el Viejo). Cursó estudios en la Universidad de Cambridge y en el Lincoln's Inn.
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.
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 ...
William Morton Pitt (1764–1836), British politician and MP for Poole (1780–1790) and Dorset (1790–1826) William Rivers Pitt (born 1971), left-wing American essayist. William Pitt (architect) (1855–1918), Australian 19th-century architect. William Pitt (engineer) (1840–1909), Canadian inventor of the underwater cable ferry in the early ...
29 de may. de 2018 · Pitt (the Elder), William, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–78) British statesman, known as ‘the Great Commoner’. He entered Parliament in 1735. Pitt was noted for his opposition to the foreign policies of prime ministers Walpole and Carteret and King George II. The crisis of the Seven Years' War (1756–63) made him effective head of the ...
