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Pitt, the Younger William

British Tory prime minister 1783-1801 and 1804-06. He raised the importance of the House of Commons, clamped down on corruption, carried out fiscal reforms, and effected the union with Ireland. He attempted to keep Britain at peace but underestimated the importance of the French Revolution and became embroiled in wars with France from 1793; he died on hearing of Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz.

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  • Barnes, Donald Grove, George III and William Pitt, 1783-1806: A New Interpretation Based upon a Study of Their Unpublished Correspondence, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, and London: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, 1939; reprinted, New York: Octagon Books, and London: Cass, 1965.
  • Black, Jeremy, British Foreign Policy in an Age of Revolutions, 1783-1793, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
  • Breihan, John, “William Pitt and the Commission-on-Fees, 1783-1801”, Historical Journal, 27 (1984): 59-81.
  • Derry, John, “Governing Temperament under Pitt and Liverpool” in The Whig Ascendancy: Colloquies on Hanoverian England, edited by Cannon, John, London: Arnold, and New York: St Martin's Press, 1981.
  • Ehrman, John, The Younger Pitt: The Years of Acclaim, London: Constable, and New York: Dutton, 1969; reprinted with corrections, London: Constable, 1984.
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  • Ehrman, John, The Younger Pitt: The Reluctant Transition, London: Constable, and Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1983.
  • Ehrman, John, The Younger Pitt: The Consuming Struggle, London: Constable, and Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1996.
  • Emsley, Clive, “Repression, Terror, and the Rule of Law in England during the Decade of the French Revolution”, English Histotical Review, 100 (1985): 801-25.
  • Harling, Philip, The Waning of “Old Corruption”: The Politics of Economical Reform in Britain, 1779-1846, Oxford: Clarendon Press, and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
  • Holland Rose, J, William Pitt and National Revival, London: Bell, 1911; reprint, included in Life of William Pitt, London: Bell, and New York: Harcourt Brace, 1924.
  • Holland Rose, J, William Pitt and the Great War, London: Bell, 1911; reprint, included in Life of William Pitt, London: Bell, and New York: Harcourt Brace, 1924.
  • Mori, Jennifer, William Pitt and the French Revolution, 1785-1795, Edinburgh: Keele University Press, and New York: St Martin's Press, 1997.
  • Sack, J J., “The Memory of Burke and the Memory of Pitt: English Conservatism Confronts Its Past, 1806-1829”, Historical Journal, 30 (1987): 623-40.
  • Wells, Roger, Wretched Faces: Famine in Wartime England 1793-1801, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton, and New York: St Martin's Press, 1988.