Dates
Biography
William Pitt (1759-1806), statesman, was born at Hayes, Kent, on 28 May 1759. He was educated at home, before entering Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, in 1773 (M.A., 1776). In 1781 he became M.P. for Appleby, and in 1782 he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in the government of Lord Sherburne. He resigned from the government in March 1783, but in December of that year, following the fall of the Duke of Portland's administration, he became Britain's youngest prime minister. He resigned in 1801, but returned to office in 1804, to take up the struggle again against France. He died at his house in Putney on 23 Jan. 1806.
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9450/C10/279-281
Scope and Contents
Letters to John Hailstone
Dates:
1790
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series — Box: MS Add.8781/204-550: Box 2
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8781/389
Scope and Contents
Canvassing letter about his re-election as M.P. for Cambridge University on appointment as Prime Minister
Dates:
10 May 1904
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series — Box: MS Add.8856: Box 1
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8856/112
Scope and Contents
Times of Dr Hey's lectures?
Dates:
16 Nov. 1778
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9750/157
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Comprises single items or small collections, chiefly correspondence, donated to or purchased by Cambridge University Library. Together with a number of items and fragments found in Cambridge University Library books and bindings.
Dates:
nd [18th century]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Reference Code: GBR/1058/TOM/10/2
Scope and Contents
Manuscript letters from Tomline to Rose concerning William Pitt the Younger, politics, Tomline's inheritance from Marmaduke Tomline and candidates for the Archbishopric of Canterbury. The letters also have manuscript annotations by Rose giving further explanation of their contents.
Dates:
1801-12-23 - 1805-02-04
Reference Code: GBR/1058/PIT
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of correspondence from William Pitt to friends and colleagues. Although there is some further contemporary material in the form of published writings by Pitt, the other significant part of the collection is posthumous and concerns commemorations of Pitt at Pembroke College.
Dates:
1773 - 2014
Reference Code: GBR/1058/TOM
Scope and Contents
The collection primarily consists of drafts and notebooks created during the preparation of Tomline's biography of his friend William Pitt the Younger: 'Memoirs of the life of the Right Honorable William Pitt' by George Tomline, first published in 1821. There are also 2 small sets of correspondence (GBR/1058/TOM/10).
Dates:
1753 - 1827
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9493
Dates:
(1785-1790, 1758-1761)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series — Box: MS Add.9563: Box 1
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9563/13
Scope and Contents
William Pitt (1759-1806), Prime Minister 1784-1801 and 1804-06, canvassed the Cambridge Senate in 1779 to be chosen as MP for the University at the next election. In the 1780 poll he came bottom of the list, but was elected for Appleby, Westmorland 17 JUL 1779 Written from Pembroke Hall (College) to an unnamed person
Dates:
July 1779
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6958-6959
Dates:
1773-1805 (Copies of originals made circa 1850)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4251/1104
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Dates:
1798
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
