Pitt, William, 1759-1806 (Prime Minister)
Dates
- Existence: 1759 - 1806
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:
Add.9450/C10/279-281, 1790
Letters to John Hailstone
Letter from William Pitt (1759-1806) to J.D. Borton, 10 May 1904
Canvassing letter about his re-election as M.P. for Cambridge University on appointment as Prime Minister
Letter from William Pitt to John Hey, 16 Nov. 1778
Times of Dr Hey's lectures?
Letter of William Wilberforce to William Pitt, nd [18th century]
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.
Manuscript letters from Tomline to J. W. Rose, 1801-12-23 - 1805-02-04
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.
Pitt: the papers of William Pitt the Younger
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.
Tomline: the papers of George Pretyman Tomline
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).
William Pitt and William Pitt the elder: Copy letters
William Pitt : Canvassing letter for the 1780 election, July 1779
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
William Pitt : correspondence
William Pitt: Letter to George Gretton, 1798
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Additional filters:
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- Archives and MSS Dept. (GBR/0012) 8
- Type
- Archival Object 7
- Collection 4
- Subject
- Politics 2
- Biographers 1
- Biographies 1
- France 1
- Napoleonic wars (1800-1815) 1