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May 29, 2018 · Pitt (the Elder), William, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–78) British statesman, known as ‘the Great Commoner’. He entered Parliament in 1735. Pitt was noted for his opposition to the foreign policies of prime ministers Walpole and Carteret and King George II. The crisis of the Seven Years' War (1756–63) made him effective head of the ...

May 26, 2023 · The lady Hester Pitt, sister of Richard, earl Temple, and wife of the right hon William Pitt, in consideration of his great and important services to this nation, was in 1761, created baroness of Chatham, with a continuance of the title to her and her heirs male, by her said husband. On July 30, 1766, the above-mentioned right hon.

May 28, 2023 · Here the last remains of the gentle Elizabeth Claypole, and, in more recent times, the eloquent Earl of Chatham, and his son, William Pitt, successively lay in state. Here, also, on the night of February 14, 1685, was the last restingplace of the embalmed body of King Charles II. before it was finally laid within the royal vaults of the Abbey."

May 7, 2023 · William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham was an extraordinary statesman and a great orator of the eighteenth century England. To distinguish him from his namesake son, William Pitt the Younger, he is referred as William Pitt the Elder. He entered politics at a time when Great Britain was going through a difficult time.

The elder William Pitt, later the first Earl of Chatham, was the driving force behind the British victory in the Seven Years War, known as the French and Indian War in North America. The extensive triumph was instrumental in establishing a truly global empire. Pitt was born in Westminster, England, the son of a prominent family whose wealth had ...

1 day ago · Strictly speaking, the first prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was William Pitt the Younger. [10]

May 27, 2023 · 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; William Pitt the Younger - Prime Minister; Sir Henry Cole - civil servant; Sir William Tite - architect and MP for Bath 1855–1873

1 day ago · Rockingham's government was weak, and he was replaced as prime minister in 1766 by Pitt, whom George created Earl of Chatham. The actions of Lord Chatham and George III in repealing the Act were so popular in America that statues of them both were erected in New York City. [48]

May 26, 2023 · The son of a prominent physician who treated the Earl of Chatham (William Pitt the Elder), Addington was a friend of the younger Pitt from childhood. A member of the House of Commons from 1784, he became its speaker in 1789.

May 26, 2023 · Governor Benning Wentworth named the town Hampstead, after the English town where William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, lived. Pitt, a close friend of Governor Wentworth, was Prime Minister of England, and a supporter of the American cause. Villages and Place Names: East Hampstead, West Hampstead