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| Terms: | 19 December 1783– 14 March 1801 10 May 1804– 23 January 1806 |
| Predecessors: | The Duke of Portland Henry Addington |
| Successors: | Henry Addington The Lord Grenville |
| Date of Birth: | 28 May 1759 |
| Place of Birth: | Hayes, Kent |
| Date of Death: | 23 January 1806 |
| Place of Death: | LondonLondon is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England, and with over seven million inhabitants in the Greater London area, is the second-most populous conurbation in Europe (after Moscow). From being Londinium the capital of the Roman province of Bri |
| Political Party: | ToryThe term Tory derives from the Tory Party the ancestor of the modern UK Conservative Party. To this day it is often used as a shortened alternative for Conservative. A similar usage for Tory exists in Canada to describe the Conservative Party. It was also |
William Pitt the Younger ( 28 May 1759– 23 January 1806) was a British politician during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He serve as Prime Minister from 1783 to 1801, and again from 1804 until his death. He is known as William Pitt the Younger to distinguish him from his father, William Pitt the Elder, who also served as Prime Minister of Great Britain.
The younger Pitt's prime ministerial tenure, which came during the reign of George III, was dominated by major events in Europe, including the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Pitt, a Tory, was both the youngest and one of the longest-serving Prime Ministers in British history.
William Pitt the Younger, the son of William Pitt the Elder (afterwards Earl of Chatham) and the Lady Hester Pitt, was born in Hayes, Kent. Pitt the Younger's father was an important British statesman, as was his maternal uncle, George Grenville. Pitt the Younger was the second son and fourth child out of five; his elder brother, John Pitt, also had a political career.
William Pitt the Younger, sickly as a boy, was educated at home by the Reverend Edward Wilson. An intelligent child, Pitt quickly became proficient in Latin and Greek. In 1773, aged but fourteen years, he attended Pembroke Hall at the University of Cambridge, where he studied political philosophy, the Classics, and history. In 1776, Pitt, plagued by poor health, took advantage of a little-used privilege available only to the sons of noblemen, and chose to graduate without having to pass examinations.
Pitt's father, who had by then been created Earl of Chatham, died in 1778. As a younger son, Pitt the Younger received a minuscule inheritance. He received legal education at Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the bar in 1780.
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