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William Pitt the Younger



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As William Wilberforce a rare exception put it Pitt does not make friends. Pitt the Elder.


Pitt Younger


The younger William Pitt was the Prime Minister of Great Britain when he addressed the House of Commons urging the abolition of the slave trade stating We may now consider this trade as having received its condemnation that its sentence is sealed that this Curse of mankind is seen by the House in its true light and that the greatest stigma on our national character which. The English statesman William Pitt the Younger introduced important financial and administrative reforms girded England for war against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France and attempted to solve the perennial Irish problem.. In 1793 he lead Britain in the war against Revolutionary France suppressing radicalism and . The remainder of the collection contains assorted documents detailing some of the political activities of Pitt as well his son William Pitt the Younger. This brainiac first served as prime minister of Great Britain then went on to become the prime minister of all of the. William Pitt the Younger was a personal friend of Thomas Raikes merchant and banker in London and Governor of the Bank of England during the crisis of 1797 when war had so diminished gold reserves that the government prohibited the Bank of England central bank of Britain from paying out in gold and ordered it to replace the payment of gold by banknotes. 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 twentyfour became and so remains the youngest Prime Minister in the history of England. The king was ready with a new patriotic leader William Pitt the Younger. But perhaps his greatest asset in the early 1780s was his youth. He was Chancellor of . Elected to Parliament in 1781. William Pitt the Younger was born on at Hayes Place in the village of Hayes Kent England to William Pitt 1st Earl of Chatham and his wife Hester Grenville. The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia 1979. He had entered Parliament in 1780 and was just 24 when he became first minister in 1783.