In particular he disagreed with Pitt's policy for the seemingly endless continuation of a wasteful war ; they also suffered differences over government policy towards the East India Company.

Mr. Pitt's case in ' 84 is the nearest analogy ; but then the people only confirmed the Sovereign's choice ; here every Conservative candidate professed himself in plain words to be Sir Robert Peel's man, and on that ground was elected.

This was again Pitt's version of the play.

The character's new, tragic backstory was Bond's way of grafting dramatic themes from The Revenger's Tragedy onto Pitt's stage plot.

Thomas ( 2003 ) argues that Pitt's power was based not on his family connections but his extraordinary parliamentary skills by which he dominated the House of Commons.

On Pitt's return home in 1730 it was necessary for him, as the younger son, to choose a profession.

It was reported that the £ 1, 000 cost of the commission had been supplied by the Prime Minister out of Treasury funds in an attempt to secure the support of Pitt's brother Thomas in Parliament.

Pitt's military career was destined to be relatively short.

Pitt's maiden speech in the Commons was delivered in April 1736, in the debate on the congratulatory address to George II on the marriage of his son Frederick, Prince of Wales.

The loss of Pitt's commission was soon compensated to him.

In response to Pitt's attacks, the British government decided not pay a direct subsidy to Hanover, but instead to pass the money indirectly through Austria-a move which was considered more politically acceptable.

The administration formed by the Pelhams in 1744, after the dismissal of Carteret, included many of Pitt's former Patriot allies, but Pitt was not granted a position because of continued ill-feeling by the King and leading Whigs about his views on Hanover.

Pitt's relationship with the Duke slumped further in early 1756 when he alleged that Newcastle was deliberately leaving the island of Minorca ill-defended so that the French would seize it, and Newcastle could use its loss to prove that Britain was not able to fight a war against France and sue for peace.

However, Pitt's pleasure over this was tempered by the subsequent news of a significant British defeat at Battle of Carillon.

The scheme of amphibious raids was the only one of Pitt's policies during the war that was broadly a failure, although it did help briefly relieve pressure on the German front by trying down French troops on coastal protection service.

Pitt's war around the world was largely successful.

Pitt's power had now reached its peak, but was soon under threat.

He was succeeded by his grandson, George III, who had once considered Pitt an ally but had become angered by Pitt's alliance with Newcastle and acceptance of the need for British intervention in Germany – which George was strongly opposed to.

Pitt's plan for an expedition to capture Belle Île was put into force in April 1761 and it was captured after a siege.

But Pitt's relation to all three was such as to entitle him to a large share in the credit of their deeds.

Pitt's brother-in-law George Grenville was given a major role in government, angering Pitt who felt Grenville should have resigned with him.

He argued against war measures like the stationing of Hessian troops in Britain, the employment of royalist French émigrés in the British army and, most of all, Pitt's suspension of habeas corpus in 1794.

The next year, Pitt's army reforms made Hertfordshire liable to provide 560 officers and men.

In The Caneing in Conduit Street ( 1796 ), James Gillray caricatured Pitt's streetcorner assault on Vancouver.

The breakthrough role in Dunst's career came in Interview with the Vampire, a 1994 film based on Anne Rice's novel, in which she played the child vampire Claudia, a surrogate daughter to Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt's characters in the film.

Many of Pitt's attacks on the government were directed personally at Sir Robert Walpole who had now been Prime Minister for twenty years.

Straczynski announced on February 23, 2007 that he had been hired to write the feature film adaptation of Max Brooks's New York Times-bestselling novel World War Z for Paramount Pictures and Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B.

The new house was on a larger scale than Pitt's, in white brick and Portland stone.

His friendship with his mentor Burke and his parliamentary credibility were both casualties of Fox's support for France during the Revolutionary Wars, but he went on to attack Pitt's wartime legislation and to defend the liberty of religious minorities and political radicals.

After Pitt's death in January 1806, Fox served briefly as Foreign Secretary in the ' Ministry of All the Talents ' of William Grenville, before he died on 13 September 1806, aged fifty-seven.

Fox opposed the bellicose stances of Pitt's ministry in the Nootka Sound crisis, and over the Russian occupation of the Turkish port of Ochakiv on the Black Sea.

Fox, however, still insisted on challenging the repressive wartime legislation introduced by Pitt in the 1790s that would become known ( rather exaggeratedly ) as " Pitt's Terror ".

Grattan supported the government for a time after 1782, and spoke and voted for the repressive legislation that followed the Whiteboy violence in 1785 ; but as the years passed without Pitt's personal favour towards parliamentary reform resulting in legislation, he gravitated towards the opposition, agitated for commutation of tithes in Ireland, and supported the Whigs on the regency question in 1788.

As the only other member of Pitt's Government in the House of Commons, Castlereagh became Pitt's political deputy, taking on ever more burdens as Pitt's health continued to decline.

But see also Horace Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of George II ( London, 1845 ); Lord Stanhope's History of England ( London, 1858 ); Lecky's History of England ( 1885 ); and ED Adams, The Influence of Grenville on Pitt's Foreign Policy ( Washington, 1904 ).

* Foster is honored on the University of Pittsburgh campus with the Stephen Foster Memorial, a landmark building that houses the Stephen Foster Memorial Museum, the Center for American Music, as well as two theaters: the Charity Randall Theatre and Henry Heymann Theatre, both performance spaces for Pitt's Department of Theater Arts.

On his return to Britain, the Duke took his seat in the House of Lords, where, on 15 December 1788 during the Regency crisis, he opposed William Pitt's Regency Bill in a speech which was supposed to have been influenced by the Prince of Wales.

* 1758 Pitt's strategy to tie down France on the continent whilst capturing her colonies around the globe begins with the Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough joining Duke Ferdinand in Germany with British forces.

Pitt's refusal to grant the French a share in Newfoundland proved the biggest obstacle to peace, as Pitt declared he would rather lose the use of his right arm than give the French a share there and later said he would rather give up the Tower of London than Newfoundland.

The younger Pitt's prime ministerial tenure, which came during the reign of George III, was dominated by major events in Europe, including the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.

Appointed Minister for War on the outbreak of the Wars of the French Revolution, he was Pitt's closest advisor and planner for Britain's military participation in the First Coalition.

Along with many such conservative Whigs as Edmund Burke, Portland was deeply uncomfortable with the French Revolution and broke with Fox over this issue, joining Pitt's government as Home Secretary in 1794.