...added ‘Cavendish’ to his surname) before undertaking a 'Grand Tour' of Europe, during the latter stages of which he was elected MP for Weobley, Herefordshire, through his family’s interests. He...
William Pitt (the younger), Government Art Collection William Pitt (the younger) was born on 28 May 1759 at Hayes Place, Kent, the second son of William Pitt (the elder), later...
...by George III as a safe pair of hands after serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Pitt the Elder and Grafton from 1767, it was to North that the...
...Temple, Viscount Cobham in 1731 and Pitt gained a commission in Temple’s regiment. William Pitt the Elder Youthful opposition William Pitt was elected to the family pocket borough of Old...
...public relations. Attlee was so apparently unconcerned with presentation that when a reporter asked him whether he would like to make a comment on Labour’s general election campaign, then in...
...a powerful impact, not just in the United States but also in the United Kingdom, on the European continent and elsewhere? Of course, the killing of an American President is...