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9 de mai. de 2024 · Role In: Seven Years’ War. William Pitt, the Elder (born November 15, 1708, London—died May 11, 1778, Hayes, Kent, England) was a British statesman, twice virtual prime minister (1756–61, 1766–68), who secured the transformation of his country into an imperial power.
Há 3 dias · By the time of Pitt‘s death in 1806, Britain had regained its financial footing, staved off the threat of revolution, and strengthened its grip on a growing empire. All before the age of 50. William Pitt the Younger was not a perfect leader. He had his blind spots, like his crackdowns on dissent. But his strengths—his intelligence ...
Há 1 dia · William Pitt the Younger: Tory 1: Earl of Euston: Whig: 1806: Lord Henry Petty: Whig: 1807: Sir Vicary Gibbs: Tory: 1811: Henry Temple: Tory: 1812: John Henry Smyth: Whig: 1822: William John Bankes: Tory: 1826: Sir John Copley: Tory: 1827: Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal: Tory: 1829: William Cavendish: Whig: 1830: Whig: 1831: Henry ...
22 de mai. de 2024 · Henry Temple's father took him to the House of Commons in 1799, where the young Palmerston shook hands with the prime minister, William Pitt the Younger. Temple was then at the University of Edinburgh (1800–1803), where he learnt political economy from Dugald Stewart, a friend of the Scottish philosophers Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith.
Há 5 dias · Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (born April 28, 1742, Arniston, Midlothian, Scotland—died May 28, 1811, Edinburgh) was a British careerist politician who held various ministerial offices under William Pitt the Younger and whose adroit control of Scottish politics
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Há 2 dias · Pitt I: Henry Addington MP for Devizes: 14 March 1801 10 May 1804 Tory: Addington: William Pitt the Younger MP for Cambridge University: 10 May 1804 23 January 1806 † Tory: Pitt II: Edward Law 1st Baron Ellenborough Lord Chief Justice (interim) 23 January 1806: 5 February 1806: Tory: All the Talents (Whig–Tory) Lord Henry Petty ...
Há 1 dia · 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'.
