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3 days ago · William Pitt the Younger was not a perfect leader. He had his blind spots, like his crackdowns on dissent. But his strengths—his intelligence, integrity, vision, and quiet resolve—equipped him to lead his country through one of the most dangerous and difficult periods in its history.
4 days ago · William Pitt, on a further consideration of his services, was created viscount Pitt, of Burton Pynsent, in Somersetshire, and earl of Chatham, with remainder to his heirs male.
5 days ago · 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.
5 days ago · William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, was a remarkable statesman and orator in eighteenth-century England. He is known to as William Pitt the Elder to distinguish himself from his namesake son, William Pitt the Younger.
2 days ago · Born in 1759, Pitt was the second son of the Earl of Chatham, who had also served as Prime Minister. His father’s political influence and connections played a significant role in Pitt’s early career. At the age of 18, he entered the House of Commons and quickly made a name for himself as a talented and eloquent speaker.
5 days ago · The bridge, according to the order of Common Council, was first named Pitt Bridge, and the adjacent streets (in honour of the great earl) Chatham Place, William Street, and Earl Street. But the first name of the bridge soon dropped off, and the monastic locality asserted its prior right.
3 days ago · A Bath tea shop bears the name (see one of main pictures above). Dr William Oliver - inventor of the Bath Oliver biscuit, and one of the founders of the Royal Mineral Water Hospital. Government. William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham - Prime Minister and MP for Bath 1757 to 1766.
