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#OnThisDay 1766 the marquess of Rockingham urged the king to offer Pitt the Elder a place in #government:
"the events of yesterday in the House of Commons have shown the amazing powers & influence which Mr. Pitt has whenever he takes part in debate"
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@jdmccafferty @HistParl @BridMcGrath @ColemanDennehy @17thCenturyLady @PlymPrivateer "His Majestie was Graciously pleased to tell them:
He was at the head of the #Government and would do what was fitt to be done" [Morrice Entring Book]
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@Cambridge_Uni Horace Walpole was encouraged by the new parliamentary intake:
"The rising generation does give one some hopes... The young William Pitt has again displayed paternal oratory. The other day, on the commission of accounts, he answered Lord North & tore him limb from limb"
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#OnThisDay 1781 21-year-old William Pitt the Younger was elected for #Parliament as MP for Appleby. He had previously tried for @Cambridge_Uni while still underage but came bottom of the poll.
Three years later he was #PrimeMinister
https://t.co/uQuwdfEGeU
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#OnThisDay 1705 Bishop Nicolson recorded being overtaken in Fleet Street by the 'duke of Marlborough & his splendid attendance of 70 officers in about 40 coaches going to dine with the lord mayor & aldermen' for an #Epiphany day feast
'The Huzzars were not very great'
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#OnThisDay 1755 John Spencer (later Earl Spencer) married Margaret Georgiana Poyntz.
Their 1st child, Georgiana, would go on to become one of the most important political characters of the period as duchess of Devonshire
https://t.co/cZ5wIWtH1V
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North had every reason to resent the success of the younger Pitt. In summer 1781 H Walpole had noted:
"The young William Pitt has again displayed paternal oratory. The other day... he answered Lord North & tore him limb from limb"
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#OTD 1783 Pitt the Younger became #PrimeMinister. North's first opposition speech was clearly bitter:
"we carried on our advances regularly & above ground... not by mining in the dark & blowing up the fort before the garrison knew there was an intention to attack it"
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#OnThisDay 1783 time was running out for the Fox North coalition. Viscount Maitland argued in the Commons against royal influence asking: ‘whether this country was henceforth to be governed by a public & responsible administration, or by a secret cabal’
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@RossRossflowers John Miller's biography in the @yalepress British monarchs series is still good; as is the fine 2 vol set by John Callow published by @TheHistoryPress
There is also, of course, the entry in our @HistParl
House of Lords 1660-1715 volumes!
Any other thoughts #twitterstorians?