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	William Pitt Chatham - LoveToKnow 1911
		WILLIAM PITT CHATHAM, 1st Earl Of (1708-1778), English statesman, was born at Westminster on the 15th of November 1708.
		William Pitt was educated at Eton, and in January 1727 was entered as a gentleman commoner at Trinity College, Oxford.
		Pitt, the first real Imperialist in modern English history, was the directing mind in the expansion of his country, and with him the beginning of empire is rightly associated.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /William_Pitt_Chatham (5258 words)

	Pitt, William, the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham - MSN Encarta
		Pitt was born on November 15, 1708, in Westminster.
		Consequently, George II refused to give Pitt important political office, but in 1746 he was made paymaster of the army in the Cabinet of Henry Pelham.
		Pitt resigned in 1761 when his advice to attack Spain was rejected by the king and the Cabinet.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563683/Pitt_William_the_Elder_1st_Earl_of_Chatham.html (718 words)

	Wikinfo \| William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, commonly known as William Pitt the Elder, (November 15, 1708 - May 11, 1778) was an English politician, born in London, who was the nominal Prime Minister and Lord Privy Seal (1766-68) and Secretary of State for the Southern Department (1756-61).
		Pitt was recalled in 1766 and formed a second coalition government, not nearly successful as the first.
		Chatham's second son, William Pitt the Younger, was a prominent Tory statesman at the end of the 18th century.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=William_Pitt,_1st_Earl_of_Chatham (384 words)

	Chatham, William Pitt, 1st earl of - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		After the fall (1742) of Walpole, Pitt was the leading critic of Lord Carteret (later earl of Granville) in his conduct of the War of the Austrian Succession.
		After the accession of George III, however, Pitt was forced to resign (1761), and he fiercely denounced the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), by which the war was concluded.
		In 1766, Pitt was recalled to office as lord privy seal, accepted the title earl of Chatham, and formed such a broadly based ministry that it was soon impossibly divided.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-chathmw.html (685 words)

	William Pitt, the Elder Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The British statesman William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708-1778), was one of the most striking political figures of the 18th century.
		William Pitt was born on Nov. 15, 1708, the son of a Cornish member of Parliament.
		In December 1756 Pitt became secretary of state under the nominal leadership of the Duke of Devonshire; this ministry was replaced in July 1757 by a coalition between Pitt and Lord Newcastle.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/william-pitt-the-elder (887 words)

	William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778) was a British Whig statesman who achieved his greatest fame as Secretary of State during the Seven Years' War (aka French and Indian War) and who was later Prime Minister of Great Britain.
		He was the younger son of Robert Pitt of Boconnoc, Cornwall, and grandson of Thomas Pitt (1653–1726), governor of Madras, who was known as "Diamond" Pitt because he sold a diamond of extraordinary size to the Regent Orléans for around £135,000.
		The historian Basil Williams has claimed that this is the first time in British history when a "man was called to supreme power by the voice of the people" rather than by the king's appointment or as the choice of Parliament.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Pitt,_1st_Earl_of_Chatham (6586 words)

	Britannia Government: Prime Ministers
		William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, known as 'the Great Commoner', dominated the political scene influencing government from within and without.
		Pitt was the son of a member of Parliament and the grandson of Thomas Pitt who had helped to build British trade in India.
		Pitt and Grenville argued over the administration of the war and in April, 1757, King George II dismissed Pitt.
	www.britannia.com /gov/primes/prime5.html (708 words)

	William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
		William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, one of England's greatest and most famous statesmen, whose combined vision and practical ability led to a remarkable increase in English possessions and influence, was born at Golden Square, Westminister, on November 15, 1708.
		Pitt determined that it should be in every sense a national war and a war at sea.
		After 1771 it was his practice to emerge only occasionally, as the elder statesman, to promote or attack individual measures, but not to attempt, as in 1770, to overthrow the ministry as a whole.
	www.laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/misc/williampitt.html (1419 words)

	William Pitt (The Younger)
		Pitt then became influenced by Charles James Fox the Leader of the Whig Party and he joined in the move to establish peace in the American Colonies and described it as an unjust war.
		Fox took the fact that Pitt accepted the post as an act of betrayal and the two became bitter enemies for the rest of their lives.
		Pitt was taken aback by the news and the onset of a serious illness came as a consequence.
	www.britainunlimited.com /Biogs/PittY.htm (1113 words)

	Wikinfo \| George Grenville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		He allied himself with his brother Richard, and with William Pitt the Elder (Richard's brother-in-law) in forcing their leader to give them promotion by rebelling against his authority and obstructing business.
		He remained in office in 1761, when his brother the Earl of Chatham resigned upon the question of the war with Spain, and in the administration of Lord Bute functioned as leader of the House of Commons.
		During the latter period of his term of office he was on a very unsatisfactory footing with the young king George III, who gradually came to feel a kind of horror of the interminable persistency of his conversation, and whom he endeavoured to make use of as the mere puppet of the ministry.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=George_Grenville (680 words)

	William Pitt the Elder + Albertus Magnus
		It is true that Pitt spoke of himself as a Protestant, but he also called Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, "the bulwark of Protestantism" — and Frederick was as skeptical as Voltaire.
		That Pitt was far from a Christian is attested by no less than William Wilberforce: referring to Pitt as the 1st Earl of Chatham, the churchman notes in his Correspondence (1840), "Lord C. died, I fear, without the smallest thought of God."
		Pitt had spent himself in debate, when he was too ill to speak, and died shortly thereafter on 11 May 1778.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/1115almanac.htm (524 words)

	Is Tony Blair the youngest Prime Minister? in The AnswerBank: Society & Culture: People & Places
		Pitt also took an interest in the way that Britain elected MPs and believed parliamentary reform was necessary for the preservation of liberty.
		Pitt soon suspended Habeas Corpus - the right not to be thrown in jail without legal proceedings - and anybody advocating parliamentary reform was arrested and charged with sedition.
		Pitt's health began to deteriorate and newspapers began reporting that the he had suffered a mental breakdown.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /article2198.html (708 words)

	PHONE-SOFT INTERNET DIRECTORY INTERNATIONAL:PITT, WILLIAM THE ELDER
		Earl of Catham, William Pitt, 'The Elder' 1766-8 Whig b.15.11.1708; d.11.5.1778 - Pitt entered the House of Commons in 1735 as the Member for Old Sarum.
		William Pitt, Earl of Chatham - Section for Pitt the Elder from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
		William Pitt the Elder, first Earl of Chatham - Examines the Prime Minister's political career.
	www.phs2.net /cwi/L3/oc731i.htm (198 words)

	Westminster Abbey (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.wisc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		On Christmas Day of the same year William the Conqueror was crowned here and all subsequent English monarchs (except Lady Jane Grey, Edward V and Edward VIII, who did not have coronations) have been crowned there.
		Harold and William, however, were crowned by the Archbishop of York possibly because Stigand, the Archbishop of Canterbury was excomunicated at the time.
		Henry III rebuilt the Abbey in honour of the Royal Saint Edward the Confessor whose memorial and relics were placed in the Sanctuary.
	www.fact-index.com.cob-web.org:8888 /w/we/westminster_abbey.html (688 words)

	pitt - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–1788) (Pitt the Elder), British Prime Minister 1766–1768
		William Pitt the Younger, British Prime Minister 1783–1801 and 1804–1806, son of Pitt the Elder
		Thomas Pitt (1653–1726), English merchant, grandfather of Pitt the Elder
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/pitt (66 words)

	William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708-1778), Prime Minister
		Forced by opinion on George II to save the nation in 1756, Pitt led the House of Commons and organised the victories of 1759 over France which consolidated British sea power and brought territorial gains in India and Canada.
		Although suffering from manic-depression, Pitt left his sick bed in 1778 to plead for a tolerant attitude to the British colonists in America.
		He was the father of William Pitt the younger.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?linkID=mp00850 (190 words)

	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.wisc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Individuals such as Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin and Robert Harley were recognised as the leaders of their respective ministries, but they cannot be considered Prime Ministers in the modern sense, given that they exercised little control over their colleagues.
		William attempted to impose his personal will in 1834, when he dismissed William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (whose Whig administration he disliked) and replaced him With a Tory, Sir Robert Peel.
		Firstly, in 1766, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (previously William Pitt the Elder) was asked by the King to form a ministry, but chose to take the office of Lord Privy Seal instead of the position of First Lord.
	prime-minister-of-the-united-kingdom.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (4571 words)

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		According to an accompanying manuscript note, this copy belonged to the Indians and was deposited with Sir William Johnson from whose biographer Mr.
		Includes letters written to Pitt, by his sons William Pitt (The Younger) and John Pitt (2nd Earl of Chatham, 1756-1835), and by Hester Granville Pitt, Lady Chatham.
		Accounts of the Indian trading post carried on at Fort Pitt, Pa., under the direction of the commissioners for Indian Affairs for the Province of Pennsylvania, together with letters and documents relating to the conduct of the business.
	www.library.pitt.edu /libraries/darlington/darl_manu.html (3662 words)

	Pitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		William Pitt "the Elder", 1st Earl of Chatham (and here), born 1708,
		Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is named after William Pitt the Elder.
		Chatham St, off Grafton St, Dublin, is apparently after Pitt the Younger (though he never inherited the title).
	humphrysfamilytree.com /Villiers/pitt.html (187 words)

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	Who was the lady who was wife, mother, sister and aunt to four different British...
		She was the wife of the 1st Earl of Chatham (Rt Hon William Pitt - Pitt the Elder) who was PM 1766 -1768.
		Her son The Rt Hon the Hon William Pitt (the Younger) was PM 1783-1801 and 1804-1806.
		Her brother the Rt Hon the Hon George Grenville was PM 1763 to 1765 and her nephew the Rt Hon the 1st Baron Grenville (William Wyndham Grenville, son of the aforementioned George) was PM 1806 to 1807.
	www.funtrivia.com /askft/Question12937.html (193 words)

	Pitt the elder, William, 1st earl of Chatham (1708-78) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Pitt finally came to power after the resignation of the duke of Newcastle in November 1756, triggered by British defeats in the French and Indian War and Seven Years War, after which Pitt was created secretary of state, and controlled the war effort until 1761.
		He concentrated on defeated the French in Canada and on the seas, culminating at the 'Year of Triumph' (1759), marked by the capture of Quebec.
		However, when George III came to the throne, Pitt found himself without royal support, and resigned in October 1761, before the end of the war.
	www.historyofwar.org /articles/people_pittelder.html (243 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		William Pitt, 'the Elder' 1st Earl of Chatham, English politician and orator, said,
		By tyranny is meant the use of cruelty, injustice, oppression and the like to enforce authority or power by governments or groups of people.
		You are the guardian angels of the rule of law.
	www.dailynews.lk /2002/02/22/fea01.html (2373 words)

	William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Seize Quartiers of the 1st Earl of Chatham
		Sir Henry Yule, Documentary Contributions to a Biography of Thomas Pitt (Hakluyt Society 78, 1889) notes that Thomas Pitt or his wife Jane Innes was nephew or niece of Richard Edwards, Chief of the Balasore factory, and of Matthias Vincent of Hugli, chief officer of the East India Company in the Bay of Bengal.
		Further research is in progress on the ancestry of Jane (Innes) Pitt.
	www.guiseley94.freeserve.co.uk /PMs/pitt-the-elder.htm (404 words)

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