Author:William Pitt (1708-1778)

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William Pitt (1708–1778)

Often known as William Pitt the Elder to distinguish him from his son William Pitt the Younger, he was British Prime Minister from 1766 to 1768.

Works

• The marriage of the Prince of Wales (1736)
• The Standing Army (1738)
• Speech against the Stamp Act (1766)
• The case of John Wilkes (1770)
• The State of the Nation (1770)
• The Defence of Weaker States (1770)

Works about William Pitt the Elder

• “Chatham, William Pitt, Earl of,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1900.

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