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 ...

But he was generally poorly regarded, prompting the satirical rhyme 'Pitt is to Addington, as London is to Paddington' - a reference to his distinguished predecessor as prime minister, William Pitt.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

His was the first State funeral since that of William Pitt (Benjamin Disraeli's family having declined ... He went on to serve as leader of the Liberal Party and held the office of Prime Minister four ...