William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
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William Pitt (28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806) was a British statesman, the youngest and last prime minister of Great Britain from 1783 until the Acts of Union 1800, and then first prime minister of the United Kingdom from January 1801.
May 24, 2024 · William Pitt, the Younger (born May 28, 1759, Hayes, Kent, England—died January 23, 1806, London) was a British prime minister (1783–1801, 1804–06) during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. He had considerable influence in strengthening the office of the prime minister.
May 8, 2013 · At just 24 years old, William Pitt The Younger, son of Pitt the Elder, was the youngest Prime Minister in history. He died aged only 46.
William Pitt the Younger. 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. He had entered Parliament in 1780 and was just 24 when he became first minister in 1783.
William Pitt, the Younger, (born May 28, 1759, Hayes, Kent, Eng.—died Jan. 23, 1806, London), British statesman and prime minister (1783–1801, 1804–06). The son of William Pitt, he entered Parliament in 1781 and served as chancellor of the Exchequer (1782–83).
May 26, 2024 · Across the Channel, the French Revolution unleashed radical new political forces that threatened the established order throughout Europe. Confronted with these crises, Britain turned to an unlikely leader: William Pitt the Younger, who became prime minister in 1783 at the tender age of 24.
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...
