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    William Pitt the Younger

    British statesman

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  1. 3 days ago · United Kingdom - William Pitt, Prime Minister, Reforms: Pitt lived and died a bachelor, totally obsessed with political office. He was clever, single-minded, confident of his own abilities, and a natural politician. But perhaps his greatest asset in the early 1780s was his youth.

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  3. 5 days ago · Walpole is the longest-serving UK prime minister with 20 years, 314 days in office. He is followed by William Pitt the Younger, who held the position for 18 years and 343 days then Robert Banks ...

  4. 3 days ago · Sir Robert Walpole is generally considered to have been Britain’s first prime minister. This is a chronologically ordered list of the prime ministers, from the earliest to the most recent.

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  5. Jun 19, 2024 · The Big Questions. * The successes and failures of William Pitt the Youngers tenure as Prime Minister. * Britain’s response to the French Revolution and radicalism. * The successes and failures of the Tory Governments of 1822-1830.

  6. Iain Dale talks to political academic Mark Garnett about the life and premiership(s) of William Pitt the Younger who became Prime Minister at the age of 24 in 1783. He resigned in 1801 and served briefly again as Prime Minister between 1804 and his death in late 1805.

  7. Jun 21, 2024 · Pitt the Younger was one of our greatest leaders but today’s MPs would never dare vote for him. Reserved, profligate and dissolute, Britain’s youngest ever prime minister would be eaten alive...

  8. 3 days ago · 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. [10] 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 . [11]

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