This was the date used when William Pitt the Younger introduced income tax in 1799, and has marked the close of the tax year ever since. Some may see this as an example of Britain’s loveable ...

William Wilberforce: No one of our age has ever taken power. Pitt the Younger: Which is why we're too young to realize certain things are impossible. So, we will do them anyway. Pitt the Younger: It's ...

A giant statue of William Pitt the Younger stood to my left, but I missed the hint and forgot to quote the inventor of “new Toryism”. But how about today’s conservatives? There we seem to have a ...

together with Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, he distrusted Bonaparte and rejected the proposal. In February 1801, Pitt resigned over domestic issues and was succeeded by Henry Addington ...

William Wilberforce: No one of our age has ever taken power. Pitt the Younger: Which is why we're too young to realize certain things are impossible. So, we will do them anyway. Pitt the Younger: It's ...

William Wilberforce: No one of our age has ever taken power. Pitt the Younger: Which is why we're too young to realize certain things are impossible. So, we will do them anyway. Pitt the Younger: It's ...

A carved marble portrait bust of William Pitt the Younger (British, 1759-1806), 1810 ...

Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, John Lyde-Brown and George III, most of whom were royalty or senior politicians. Between 1785 and 1806, Henry Dundas, the 1 st Viscount Melville lived in ...

So it was with William Pitt the Younger, Britain's most youthful and durable Prime Minister. The official story has him, in an agony both physical and mental, moaning, 'My country! How I leave my ...