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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.
Há 3 dias · 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.
Pitt, William, first earl of Chatham [known as Pitt the elder] (1708–1778), prime minister, was born on 15 November 1708 at Golden Square, Westminster, the fourth child and second son of Robert Pitt (1680?–1727), politician, of Boconnoc, Cornwall, and his wife, Harriet Villiers (d. 1736), younger daughter of General the Honourable Edward Villiers of Dromana, co. Waterford, and his wife ...
William Pitt, the Elder, later 1st earl of Chatham, (born Nov. 15, 1708, London, Eng.—died May 11, 1778, Hayes, Kent), British statesman and orator, twice virtual prime minister (1756–61, 1766–68). He entered Parliament in 1735 and provoked controversy with his maiden speech, which criticized the ministry of Robert Walpole.
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).
Pitt, der Jüngere. ßlich, das angeschlagene Finanzwesen wirder in den Griff zu bekommen. Pitt war ein erklärter Gegner der Sklaverei und hielt am 2.04.1792 im Parlament eine beeindruckende Rede. Sein Anliegen war es, fortan die Afrikaner als Menschen und nicht als Sklaven zu betrachten.
2 de fev. de 2018 · William Pitt the Younger, so styled because his father 'Pitt the Elder' had also been prime minister, was a political prodigy. He graduated from Cambridge at 17 and entered Parliament four years ...
