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    William Pitt the Younger (28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806) was a British statesman, the youngest and last prime minister of Great Britain from 1783 until...
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    Chatham or William Pitt the Elder to distinguish him from his son William Pitt the Younger, who was also a prime minister. Pitt was also known as the Great...
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    to the Pitt family by marriage since William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, had married his father's sister Hester. The younger Grenville was thus the first...
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    older than his famous brother William Pitt the Younger, the future prime minister. After serving as a junior officer in the American War of Independence...
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    MacDonald, The Viscount Melbourne, The Duke of Newcastle, Lord Palmerston, Robert Peel, William Pitt the Younger, The Duke of Portland, The Marquess of...
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    Henry Addington (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Wiltshire)
    ahead of what would become the War of the Third Coalition. He was forced from office in favour of William Pitt the Younger, who had preceded Addington...
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    Holwood House (category Grade I listed buildings in the London Borough of Bromley)
    is on the site of an earlier building owned by William Pitt the Younger, and the grounds contain the remains of an Iron Age fort known as a "Caesar's...
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    Castlereagh-Canning duel (category Dueling in the United Kingdom)
    orientation and joined William Pitt the Younger, who promptly recognized their political talent and supported them. Nearly of the same age, the two rapidly became...
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  • Camelford. The family produced two British Prime Ministers: William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, and his son William Pitt the Younger. The family's fortunes...
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  • and 1830, with William Pitt the Younger followed by Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool. The Whigs won control of Parliament in the 1831 election,...
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