So as to reduce the power of the Opposition, Pitt offered Charles James Fox and his allies posts in the Cabinet ; Pitt's refusal to include Lord North, however, thwarted his efforts.

" Pitt's continued refusal to join the first Rockingham administration was no doubt partly due to the same disastrous influence, though before the close of 1765 the old friendship between the brothers-in-law was dissolving ; and when at last in July 1766 Pitt agreed to form a government, Temple refused to join ; being bitterly offended because, although offered the Treasury, he was not to be allowed an equal share with Pitt in nominating to other offices.

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.

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 particular genius was to finance an army on the continent to drain French men and resources so that Britain might concentrate on what he held to be the vital spheres: Canada and the West Indies ; whilst Clive successfully defeated Siraj Ud Daulah, ( the last independent Nawab of Bengal ) at Plassey ( 1757 ), securing India.

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.

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.

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.

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 review, published in full in June 2008 contained 92 recommendations looking at all aspects of the " biggest civil emergency in British history ".

Pitt's allies, including his cousin, Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, attacked Vancouver in the press.

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.

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

* January 23 – Grenville succeeds William Pitt the Younger as wartime Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, upon Pitt's death this day amidst worsening health caused by the stresses of the Napoleonic Wars.

Although many of the Whigs who had joined with Pitt would eventually return to the fold, joining again with Fox in the Ministry of All the Talents following Pitt's death in 1806.

Fox used his parliamentary majority to oppose Pitt's nomination, and every subsequent measure that he put before the House, until March 1784, when the King dissolved Parliament and, in the following general election, Pitt was returned with a substantial majority.

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 ".

When, in 1790, the comte de Mirabeau disparaged Fox in Pitt's presence, Pitt stopped him, saying, " You have never seen the wizard within the magic circle.

In his first political speech, he vehemently attacked the absent war minister William Pitt, renewing this assault the next day to Pitt's face.

In March 2006 it was announced that Warner Bros. had purchased the rights to The Sparrow for Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B, and that Pitt himself would be playing the role of Sandoz with screenwriter Michael Seitzman adapting the novel to film.

Another entrant was William Pitt, who was a constant rival to Murray until Pitt's death in 1778.

His rivalry with William Pitt highlighted his unsuitability for politics-unlike other politicians such as Philip Yorke and Edward Thurlow he did not have the temperament to resist " the vehemence of Pitt's invective ".

An important commission in terms of the client, were alterations to William Pitt the Younger's house at Holwood House in 1786, Soane had befriended William Pitt's uncle Thomas on his grand tour ; In ( 1787 ) Soane remodelled the interior of Fonthill Splendens ( later replaced by Fonthill Abbey ) for Thomas Beckford, adding a picture gallery lit by two domes and other work.

In a strange parallel he was frustrated in his bid to become Prime Minister by that of Pitt's younger son William Pitt the Younger who held the office for twenty years continuously, leaving Fox out in the wilderness in much the same way the Elder Pitt had done to Henry Fox.

Three games into his sophomore season, he became Pitt's all-time leader in career rushing yards, surpassing the old record of 1, 957 yards set by Marshall Goldberg, who helped Pitt to a national championship in 1937.

He played a part in negotiating the coalition between Newcastle and Pitt in 1757, when he accepted a seat in Pitt's cabinet without returning to the woolsack.

The resignation of Pitt on the question of Catholic emancipation ( 1801 ) put an end to Wedderburn's tenure of the Lord Chancellorship, for, much to his surprise, no place was found for him in Addington's cabinet. Pitt's friends believed he had ben guilty of treachery over the Emancipation issue ; and even the King, who used Loughborough as a spy in Cabinet, later commented that his death removed " the gretest knave in the Kingdom ".

Resisting Pitt's attempt to draw him into alliance against the ministry he had quit, Yorke maintained, in a speech that extorted the highest eulogy from Horace Walpole, that parliamentary privilege did not extend to cases of libel ; though he agreed with Pitt in condemning the principle of general warrants.

The group surrounding Pitt the Younger came to be the dominant force in British politics from 1783 until 1830 and after Pitt's death ( 1806 ) the ministers in the Portland government ( 1807 – 1809 ) called themselves the " Friends of Mr Pitt " rather than Tories.

Amongst other repressive measures, Pitt's government proposed to introduce the Unlawful Societies Act in 1799, which declared that any body which administered a secret oath was illegal.

Upon examination he declared that he had taken part in secret affairs of state ( referring to his efforts in France ), but had been betrayed and abandoned by William Pitt's administration.

Fitzwilliam declared in a letter to Grenville on 7 November that Pitt's unwillingness to come out in support of a restoration of the House of Bourbon as the aim of the war was the main reason why he did not support Pitt.

After war was declared on France in early 1793, he broke with the antiwar, pro-Revolution Foxite Whigs to form a small ‘ Third Party ’ that was independent of Pitt's government but supportive of the war effort.

This attitude of the Catholics was caused by Pitt's encouragement of the expectation that Catholic emancipation, the commutation of tithes, and the endowment of the Catholic priesthood, would accompany or quickly follow the passing of the measure.

Fox soon grew to be a favourite of George II as well, who would in the future support his inclusion in governments in much the same way he would oppose Pitt's membership.

Erskine lost his seat the following year in the general election, becoming one of " Fox's martyrs " when Pitt's party made large gains, although he would regain the seat in 1790.

Realizing that William Pitt the Younger was seriously considering hardline politics towards Russia, and that a war with Prussia and Great Britain would likely end up with a loss, Russian Empress Catherine the Great ordered her ambassador in London, Semyon Vorontsov, to aid Pitt's opponent, Charles Fox, in the British Parliament.

It was a purchase that would have a significant effect on British history, as the seat would pass to Pitt's rather influential descendants.

It is unclear if FitzGibbon's support of Grattan, or support for Pitt's proposals would have made much difference, given that many hardline Protestants probably felt the same way as FitzGibbon.