William Pitt the Elder, Earl of Chatham, was twice Prime Minister and was buried in the north transept of Westminster Abbey on 9th June 1778. His was a magnificent public funeral. A stone, only ...

William Pitt the Younger was born in London on 28 May 1759 and made history by becoming the world’s youngest Prime Minister at the age of 24. Son of politician William Pitt the Elder ...

Mr Pitt is also a critic of Nationals leader David Littleproud. The Rudd government named former deputy prime minister and Nationals leader Tim Fischer to the same position in 2008. A long line of ...

The main reason it took so long to abolish the slave trade was simply because the pro-slave trade lobby had too many important and powerful figures in the establishment. The plantation owners, the ...

It was named after former Prime Minister William Pitt with the individual islands taking their names from characters in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers. The group collected data on the islands ...

T he question of how history judges prime ministers can be answered in one word: haphazardly. This is because, of course, ...

Given that he wrote a book on the subject in 2004 William Hague's choice of Pitt the Younger as his political hero is hardly surprising. However, the fact it was a former prime minister who first ...

Collectively, the chain take its name from the former Prime Minister William Pitt, but the individual islands are named after characters in Dickens' Pickwick Papers. Temperatures on the islands ...

A widely-known fact about the City of Wilkes-Barre is that its named after John Wilkes and Isaac Barre, members of the British Parliament who supported the American colonies during the American ...