Seven Republican senators – William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle and notably Senators Grimes and Ross played a decisive role ; purportedly disturbed by how the proceedings had been manipulated to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence, they voted against conviction, in defiance of their party and public opinion.

" When Words Fail: William Pitt, Benjamin Franklin and the Imperial Crisis of 1766 ," Parliamentary History, October 2009, Vol.

The series features rotten boroughs ( or " robber buttons "), Dr. Samuel Johnson ( played by Robbie Coltrane ), William Pitt the Younger ( Simon Osborne ), the French Revolution ( featuring Chris Barrie, Nigel Planer and Tim McInnerny as the Scarlet Pimpernel ), over-the-top theatrical actors, a squirrel-hating transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the Duke of Wellington ( played by Stephen Fry ).

The " Old Lady of Threadneedle St " ( the Bank personified ) is ravished by William Pitt the Younger.

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

Dundas put a brake on intellectual and social change through his ruthless manipulation of patronage in alliance with Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, until he lost power in 1806.

The British embassies of George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney ( 1793 ) and William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst ( 1816 ) were foiled, since kowtowing would mean acknowledging their King as a subject of the Emperor.

* Old Sarum, England – population moved to nearby Salisbury although the owners of the archaeological site retained the right to elect a Member of Parliament to represent Old Sarum until the nineteenth century ( see William Pitt ).

* 1759 – William Pitt the Younger, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1806 )

* 1806 – William Pitt Fessenden, 26th United States Secretary of the Treasury ( 1864 – 65 ) ( d. 1869 )

Since 1721, every head of the Sovereign's government – with one exception in the 18th century ( William Pitt the Elder ) and one in the 19th ( Lord Salisbury ) – has been First Lord of the Treasury.

During Britain's participation in the Seven Years War, for example, the powers of government were divided equally between the Duke of Newcastle and William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, leading to them both alternatively being described as Prime Minister.

" In 1803, William Pitt the Younger, also a Tory, suggested to a friend that " this person generally called the first minister " was an absolute necessity for a government to function, and expressed his belief that this person should be the minister in charge of the finances.

William Pitt the Younger in front of the Treasury Bench addressing the House of Commons.

Pembroke College is home to the first chapel designed by Sir Christopher Wren and is also one of the Cambridge colleges to have educated a British prime minister, William Pitt the Younger.

William Pitt the Younger, the youngest ever British Prime Minister and alumnus of the College

Wilberforce was also urged by his close friend, Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, to make the issue his own, and was also given support by reformed Evangelical John Newton.

The likes of Edmund Burke and William Pitt the Younger led the way in this.

These were slaughtered by government forces, but these rebellions convinced the British under Prime Minister William Pitt that the only solution was to end Irish independence once and for all.

Prime Ministers of the period included: William Pitt the Younger, Lord Grenville, Duke of Portland, Spencer Perceval, Lord Liverpool, George Canning, Lord Goderich, Duke of Wellington, Lord Grey, Lord Melbourne, and Sir Robert Peel.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC ( 15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778 ), called William Pitt the Elder by historians, was a British Whig statesman who led Britain during the Seven Years ' War ( known as the French and Indian War in the United States ).

Historians call him Pitt, Chatham, or William Pitt, the Elder to distinguish him from his son, William Pitt the Younger.

The film featured a scene in which Dunst shared her first on-screen kiss with Brad Pitt, who was eighteen years her senior.

Pitt had continued his naval descents during 1758, but the first had enjoyed only limited success and the second ended with near disaster at the Battle of St Cast and no further Descents were planned.

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.

* September 17 – The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed, the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe ( the Lenape or Delaware ).

Leaving a sizable force at Fort William Henry to distract Montcalm, he began organizing for the expedition to Quebec, only to be ordered by William Pitt, the Secretary of State responsible for the colonies, to attack Louisbourg first.

His speech was a sensation, famously described by the Speaker, Charles Abbot, as " the best first speech since that of William Pitt.

From 1882 Pitt Rivers served as Britain's first Inspector of Ancient Monuments: a post created by anthropologist and parliamentarian John Lubbock who was married to Pitt Rivers ' daughter, Alice.

The second phase of fort-building ( 1806 – 1819 ) included Fort Pitt ( later used as a hospital and the site of the first Army Medical School ).

Pitt – Johnstown, a branch campus of the University of Pittsburgh, will become the PSAC's first member from the Commonwealth System of Higher Education.

Some of the first Europeans to visit the area are thought to have been British Army deserters from Fort Pitt, who reportedly fled their post in 1761 during the French and Indian War and roamed northwestern Virginia for several years thereafter.

In 1773, John Day's Bridge, a village governed by the English township of Morris since its settlement in 1710, was renamed as, Chatham, in honor of Sir William Pitt, a British prime minister and the first Earl of Chatham who was most favorable toward the colonists of the Province of New Jersey in issues with the British government.

* 1788-Elizabeth was one of the first seven townships organized by Allegheny County ; the others being Moon, St. Clair, Mifflin, Versailles, Plum, and Pitt.

One of Pitt ’ s first major actions as Prime Minister was, in 1785, to put a scheme of parliamentary reform before the Commons, proposing to rationalise somewhat the existing, decidedly unrepresentative, electoral system by eliminating thirty-six rotten boroughs and redistributing seats to represent London and the larger counties.

Later in the same year Pitt conducted the BBC's first broadcast symphony concert, which included Dvořák's New World Symphony and works by Saint-Saëns, Elgar and Weber.

Percy Pitt, the BBC's first director of music

Colonel William Pitt Kellogg, future governor of Louisiana, commanding the 7th Illinois cavalry, was the first to encounter the rebel sabotage of recently burned bridges and other obstructions.

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

Wilkes was at first a follower of William Pitt the Elder and was an enthusiastic supporter of Britain's involvement in the Seven Years War.

Pitt left the project seven weeks before the first day of shooting, halting production.

* 27 – Thomas Pitt Cholmondeley-Tapper, 90, first New Zealand auto racing driver.

Following the 1998 release of I Remember When I Break Down on Ovenguard Music, on which Otis Fodder was sole writer, the group's first album as a duo ( Otis Fodder and Mildred Pitt ) was in 1999, with Hey Won't Somebody Come and Play on Ovenguard Music.