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Há 2 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 4 dias · William Jefferson Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond, PC, FRSL (born 26 March 1961) is a British politician and life peer who served as Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1997 to 2001. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond (Yorks) in North Yorkshire from 1989 to 2015. He served in the Cameron government ...
Há 4 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 1 dia · 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.”
Há 1 dia · Robert Peel. Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, FRS (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850), was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835, 1841–1846), simultaneously serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–1835). He previously served twice as Home Secretary (1822–1827, 1828–1830).
Há 4 dias · John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham, son of the 1st Earl and elder brother of William Pitt the younger, was born in 1756. He entered the army, and served as a subaltern during the siege of Gibraltar in 1779–83. In 1788 he joined his brother's ministry as first lord of the admiralty, and held office until the end of 1794.
Há 5 dias · Later prime ministers, notably William Pitt the Younger (1783–1801, 1804–06), restored its importance and made key enhancements to the structure.
