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.

* Mr. William Pitt, MP ( 1735 – 1746 )

On his return to England, William was elected to Parliament in 1832 as Conservative Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Newark, partly through the influence of the local patron, the Duke of Newcastle.

* William Henry Gladstone ( 1840 – 1891 ), MP.

** William Cochrane, Scottish MP in the British Parliament

* William Wilberforce ( 1759 – 1833 ), MP successively for Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire and Bramber, leading abolitionist

The current Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs is the Right Honourable William Hague MP.

" The Pankhursts hosted a variety of guests including U. S. abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, Indian MP Dadabhai Naoroji, socialist activists Herbert Burrows and Annie Besant, and French anarchist Louise Michel.

* Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet ( 1764 – 1851 ), businessman and Member of Parliament ( MP ), father of William Ewart Gladstone

* Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Baronet ( 1804 – 1889 ), MP, elder brother of William Ewart Gladstone

* John Neilson Gladstone ( 1807 – 1863 ), MP and brother of William Ewart Gladstone

* William Henry Gladstone ( 1840 – 1892 ), MP and classical musician, eldest son of William Ewart Gladstone

Swedish Democratic MP William Petzäll was persuaded to leave the party on 26 September 2011 while still retaining his parliamentary seat.

Salford's case, however, was considered favourably by the Home Secretary, William Joynson-Hicks, MP for a neighbouring constituency of Manchester.

He renewed his friendship with William Wilberforce, now MP for Hull, with whom he frequently met in the gallery of the House of Commons.

The Library is in a Georgian building on Thames Street with a double blue plaque to two former residents, the singer John Beard and William Ewart MP, the Politician behind the Public Libraries Act 1850.

* William Ewart MP ( politician and promoter of free libraries )

William Wilberforce ( MP, and abolitionist of the slave trade ) and Sir Stamford Raffles ( founder of colonial Singapore ) both briefly resided here, the former being the patron of Mill Hill ’ s first church, Saint Paul ’ s.

On a Sunday afternoon in May, 1798 William Pitt, the then Prime Minister, who lived in Bowling-Green House on the heath, fought a bloodless battle with William Tierney, MP.

The Tufnell Park estate passed to his brother George Foster Tufnell, MP for Beverley ( d 1798 ), then to George's son William Tufnell ( d 1809 ), MP for Colchester, who married in 1804 into a fortune owned by Mary Carleton ( daughter of Thomas Carleton of South Carleton d. 1829 ).

* William Smith ( abolitionist ) ( 1756 – 1835 ), grandfather of Florence Nightingale, dissenter and British MP

* William Smith ( MP for Ripon ), MP for Ripon