he is known as Pitt the Younger to avoid confusion with his father William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–1778), architect of British victory in the Seven Years' War (1756–1763).Keywords:eighteenth century;nineteenth century;biography;french revolution;United Kingdom;Western Europe...
Taking up office at the age of 24 years and 205 days, William Pitt was the youngest ever prime minister, and one of the longest in the role. His time at Number 10 wasmomentous2. Pitt led the country through major events including the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars,regained3fina...
William Pitt the Younger is an illuminating biography of one of the great iconic figures in British history: the man who in 1784 at the age of twenty-four became (and so remains) the youngest Prime Minister in the history of England. In this lively and authoritative study, William Hague--...
British prime minister during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, Pitt helped to strengthen the office of the prime minister.William Pitt was the second son of the Earl of Chatham, himself a famous statesman. He went to Cambridge aged 14 and in early 1781 was elected to ...
Pitt, William ("the Younger") (1759–1806) The youngest prime minister in British history, William Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham, led Britain's House of Commons through the aftermath of the American War... D Green - Blackwell Publishing Ltd 被引量: 0发表: 2011年 William Pitt and the ...
William Pitt During this period he became very friendly with William Pitt. The two men had been at Cambridge together, but had spent little time together as Pitt took his education more seriously. Pitt was "astronomically ambitious, but being a younger son had no independent fortune". He ...
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message: character, competence, and collaboration, are all powerful represented in this film. The latter beautifully portrayed by the David-and-Jonathan-like friendship between Wilberforce and William Pitt the Younger—two of the youngest members in parliament who together decided to accomplish the ...
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Fuseli once said, that "one of the most unexplored regions of art are dreams and what may be called the personification of sentiments." However, Fuseli himself showed little interest in dreams and inner workings of the psyche, with one exception-like the Romantic writers of the younger ...