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The Younger Pitt

PROFILES IN POWER

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General Editor: Keith Robbins

CATHERINE DE MEDICI
R.J. Knecht

ELIZABETH I (2nd Edn)
Christopher Haigh

RURGHLEY
Michael A.R. Graves

JAMES I AND VI
Roger Lockyer

RICHELIEU
R.J. Knecht

GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS (2nd Edn)
Michael Roberts

OLIVER CROMWELL
Barry Coward

PETER THE GREAT (2nd Edn)
M.S. Anderson

THE ELDER PITT
Marie Peters

THE YOUNGER PITT
Michael Duffy

JOSEPH II
T.C.W. Blanning

ROBESPIERRE
John Hardman

NAPOLEON
Geoffrey Ellis

ALEXANDER. I
Janet M. Hartley

DISRAELI
Ian Machin

JUREZ
Brian Hamnett

CAVOUR
Harry Harder

NAPOLEON III
James McMillan

FRANCIS JOSEPH
Steven Beller

ATATRK
A.L. Macfie

LENIN
Beryl Williams

LLOYD GEORGE
Martin Pugh.

PTAIN
Nicholas Atkin

HITLER
Ian Kershaw

CHURCHILL
Keith Robbins

NEHRU
Judith M. Brown

ATTLEE
Robert Pearce

NASSER
Peter Woodward

DE GAULLE
Andrew Shernan

FRANCO
Sheelagh Ellwood

MAO
S.G. Breslin

MACMILLAN
John Turner

KENNEDY
Hugh Brogan

CASTRO (2nd Edn)
Sebastian Balfour

GORBACHEV
Martin McCauley

WILLIAM PENN
Dorothy McCarthy

KAISER WILHELM II
Christopher Clark

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THE
YOUNGER PITT

Michael Duffy

First published 2000 by Pearson Education Limited

Published 2013 by Routledge
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Copyright 2000, Taylor & Francis.

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ISBN 13: 978-0-582-05279-6 (pbk)

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book can be obtained from the British
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Duffy, Michael, 1944
The younger Pitt / Michael Duffy.
p.cm. (Profiles in power)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-582-05278-5 (cased : alk. paper) ISBN 0-582-05279-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Pitt, William, 17591806.2. Great BritainPolitics and government17601820. 3.
Prime ministersGreat BritainBiography. I. Title. II. Profiles in power (London,
England)

DA522.P6 D84 2000
941.073092dc21

[B]

00-032708

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CONTENTS

Superior even to Charles Fox:
The short path to power

Awkward I am certain in a certain quarter:
Pitt and the King

Really master now:
Pitt as Prime Minister

The ambition of my life:
Pitt and the business of government

The theatre of future fame:
Pitt and the House of Commons

The impression and effect of numbers on our side:
Pitt and the people

To diminish the temptation to wars of ambition:
Pitt and the powers of Europe

Enough to kill a man:
The erosion of power

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Add. MSS	British Library, Additional Manuscripts
BL	British Library
C.C.GIII	Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (ed.), Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third, 4 vols (185355)
EHR	English Historical Review
HJ	The Historical Journal
HMC	Historical Manuscripts Commission
Holland	This common contemporary abbreviation has been employed instead of the fall title of the Dutch republic: the United Provinces of Holland, Zeeland etc.
L.C. GIII	A. Aspinall (ed.), The Later Correspondence of George III, 5 vols (Cambridge, 196270)
NRS	Navy Records Society
PH	Parliamentary History
Parl. Hist.	W. Cobbett (ed.), The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, 36 vols (180620)
Pitt/Rutland Corresp.	Earl Stanhope (ed.), Correspondence between the Rt. Hon. William Pitt and Charles, Duke of Rutland 17811787, with Introduction by the Duke of Rutland (1890)
PRO	Public Record Office, London
Speeches	W.S. Hathaway (ed.), The Speeches of the Rt. Hon. William Pitt, 4 vols (1806)

The place of publication for works cited is London unless otherwise stated.

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1759	Pitt born 28 May
17739	At Cambridge. American Declaration of Independence and war 1776; death of father 1778; France (1778), Spain (1779) and Holland (1780) enter war against Britain
1780	Called to the Bar as a recognised trial lawyer; general election, defeated for Cambridge University seat
1781	MP for Appleby, takes seat 23 January, first speech 26 February
1782	Fall of Lord Norths Ministry (March); introduces parliamentary reform motion (May); becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer in Shelburnes Ministry (6 July)
1783	Shelburne defeated on peace preliminaries and Pitt resigns (February); declines Kings invitations to form a government; visits France; encourages King to defeat Foxs India Bill and appointed First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer (19 December)
1784	Struggle to win supremacy in the Commons (January-March); general election; MP for Cambridge University; passes own India Act and begins tax reforms

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