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- On taking up his seat in the House of Commons, Wilberforce met up with his university friend, William Pitt the Younger, who had also chosen a political career. Pitt and Wilberforce spent much time studying the more experienced Members of Parliament from the Commons gallery, and listening to heated political debates of the day.
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In the first, William Pitt the Younger, he explored a subject for whom he had an obvious sympathy: William Pitt had, at 24, become the youngest Prime Minister this country has ever known.
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William Pitt the Younger was a prime minister who consolidated the powers of his office. Though he was sometimes opposed by members of his Cabinet, he helped define the role of the Prime Minister as the supervisor and co-ordinator of the various government departments.
He studied at Cambridge University where he began a lasting friendship with the future prime minister, William Pitt the Younger. In 1780, Wilberforce became member of parliament for Hull,...
R. E. Foster examines the career of Pitt the Younger. William Pitt is, in some respects, an unlikely political icon. A delicate child, he was described as a man by H. A. Bruce as a ‘tall, ungainly, bony figure’. Pitt was a satirist’s gift.
May 22, 2024 · William Wilberforce (born August 24, 1759, Hull, Yorkshire, England—died July 29, 1833, London) was a British politician and philanthropist who from 1787 was prominent in the struggle to abolish the slave trade and then to abolish slavery itself in British overseas possessions.
Sep 22, 2020 · On January 23 rd, 1806, Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger passed away in his London home, his final words being, on account of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte’s crushing victory over coalition forces the prior month, “Oh my country! How I leave my country!”
William was born in 1708, the younger son of Robert Pitt of Cornwall and Harriet, daughter of the Hon. Edward Villiers of Ireland. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge and entered Parliament in 1735. Although he suffered from gout and ill health he was known as a great orator in Parliament.
