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.

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.

From the mid-1760s a range of Neoclassical modes were fashionable, associated with the British architects Robert Adam, James Gibbs, Sir William Chambers, James Wyatt, George Dance the Younger, Henry Holland and Sir John Soane.

William Pitt the Younger was to become Prime Minister at a young age and lead Britain for more than twenty years.

* William Pitt the Younger ( 1759 – 1806 ), who also served as Prime Minister ; never married.

The town is named Pittsborough ( later shortened to Pittsboro ) for William Pitt the Younger.

* February 4 – William Pitt the Younger resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

* 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.

* January 23 – William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1759 )

* May 10 – William Pitt the Younger begins his second term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

* January – William Pitt the Younger, later Prime Minister, enters Parliament.

* January 9 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars.

* May 28 – William Pitt the Younger, statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1806 )

The youngest son of William Edward Parkinson ( 1871 – 1927 ), an art master at North East County School and from 1913 principal of York School of Arts and Crafts, and his wife, Rose Emily Mary Curnow ( born 1877 ), the young Parkinson attended St. Peter's School, York, where in 1929 he won an Exhibition to study history at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge.

He was the youngest son of William the Conqueror.

Theodore Roosevelt, the youngest to serve, was 42 years and 11 months old when he was sworn in following the death of William McKinley in 1901, and John F. Kennedy, the youngest to be elected, was 43 years and 7 months old when he was inaugurated in 1961.

Soon after that second hospitalization, Cantor's youngest son Rudolph died suddenly ( while Cantor was delivering a lecture on his views on Baconian theory and William Shakespeare ), and this tragedy drained Cantor of much of his passion for mathematics.

Gerald's father, William Robert Gardner ( 1844 – 1935 ) had been the youngest son of Joseph Gardner ( b. 1791 ), after whom the firm had been renamed, and who with his wife Maria had had five sons and three daughters.

His mother was Charlotte, youngest daughter of William Baird of Newbyth.

He was the youngest son of Irish portraitist John Butler Yeats, and the brother of the Nobel Prize winning poet William Butler Yeats.

His youngest daughter, Eleanor, married William Marshal's son, also called William, and later the famous English rebel Simon de Montfort.

In 1901, President William McKinley was assassinated and Roosevelt became President at the age of 42 ; he remains the youngest president.

He was born the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver in Suffolk, and, in 1740, left home to study art in London with Hubert Gravelot, Francis Hayman, and William Hogarth.

According to his father's desire that his youngest son should choose a < em > gentleman's </ em > vocation, William, after his graduation from high school, entered the Cayuga County National Bank of Auburn as a clerk, where he spent long hours adding numbers.

He is succeded by his youngest son, William I of Sicily

" He therefore set himself up in rivalry with John Lackland, youngest son of Henry II, and supported by Philip Augustus of France, and aided by William des Roches, seneschal of Anjou, he managed to enter Angers ( 18 April 1199 ) and there have himself recognized as count of the three countships of Anjou, Maine and Touraine, for which he did homage to the king of France.

The youngest son, William M. Daley, was President Obama's former White House Chief of Staff and former US Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton.

Relations between Henry and his youngest brother, William X, Count of Poitou, were more cordial, and William was given vast estates in England.

* Henry William Wilberforce ( 1807 – 1873 ), the youngest son of William Wilberforce, Catholic convert, journalist and author

* Logan Lerman as William Martin: Benjamin's fifth and youngest son, he is often seen being taken care of by his sister, Margaret.

* Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone ( 1854 – 1930 ), Home Secretary 1905 – 1910 and Governor-General of South Africa 1910 – 1914 ; youngest son of William Ewart Gladstone

# Gilbert Marshal, 4th Earl of Pembroke ( 1197 – 27 June 1241 ), married ( 1 ) Marjorie of Scotland, youngest daughter of King William I of Scotland ; by an unknown mistress he had one illegitimate daughter:

He was succeeded by his half-brother Frederick Henry ( Dutch: Frederik Hendrik ), youngest son of William I. Maurits urged his successor on his deathbed to marry as soon as possible.