William Pitt yang Muda
William Pitt yang Muda (28 Mei 1759 – 23 Januari 1806) adalah politisi asal Britania Raya pada akhir abad ke-18 dan awal abad ke-19. Ia menjadi Perdana Menteri Britania Raya termuda pada tahun 1783 di usia 24 tahun. Ia meninggalkan jabatan ini pada tahun 1801, tetapi kembali menjadi perdana menteri pada tahun 1804 sampai dengan kematiannya pada tahun 1806.
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Perdana Menteri Britania Raya | |||||||||||||||||
Masa jabatan 10 Mei 1804 – 23 Januari 1806 | |||||||||||||||||
Penguasa monarki | George III | ||||||||||||||||
Masa jabatan 19 Desember 1783 – 14 Maret 1801 | |||||||||||||||||
Penguasa monarki | George III | ||||||||||||||||
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Menteri Keuangan Britania Raya | |||||||||||||||||
Masa jabatan 10 Mei 1804 – 23 Januari 1806 | |||||||||||||||||
Penguasa monarki | George III | ||||||||||||||||
Masa jabatan 19 December 1783 – 14 March 1801 | |||||||||||||||||
Penguasa monarki | George III | ||||||||||||||||
Masa jabatan 10 July 1782 – 31 March 1783 | |||||||||||||||||
Penguasa monarki | George III | ||||||||||||||||
![]() Pendahulu Lord John Cavendish Pengganti Lord John Cavendish | |||||||||||||||||
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Lahir | Hayes, Kent | 28 Mei 1759||||||||||||||||
Meninggal | 23 Januari 1806 London | (umur 46)||||||||||||||||
Kebangsaan | Britania Raya | ||||||||||||||||
Partai politik | Tory (scholar consensus)[1] Independent Whig (self description)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Pembroke College, Cambridge | ||||||||||||||||
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Referensi
sunting- ^ "William Pitt the Younger". Britannia.com. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2010-09-24. Diakses tanggal 2010-04-23.
- ^ {Harvnb|Hague|2005|loc=p.582}}
Kutipan
sunting- "Oh, my country! How I leave my country." (Attributed last words, from: Stanhope's Life of the Rt Hon. William Pitt (1862), vol. iv, p. 391)
- "My country! Oh, my country!" (Attributed last words, from: G. Rose Diary 23 January 1806)
- "I think I could eat one of Bellamy's veal pies." (alternative attributed last words)[1]
- "...the foulest and most atrocious deed." (in reference to the execution of King Louis XVI of France)[2]
- “Roll up that map: it will not be wanted these ten years.” (referring to a map of Europe, after hearing of Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz)
Bacaan lebih lanjut
sunting- Black, Jeremy. British Foreign Policy in an Age of Revolutions, 1783–93 (1994)
- Cooper, William. "William Pitt, Taxation, and the Needs of War," Journal of British Studies Vol. 22, No. 1 (Autumn, 1982), pp. 94–103 in JSTOR
- Derry, J. Politics in the Age of Fox, Pitt and Liverpool: Continuity and Transformation (1990)
- Duffy, Michael (2000). The Younger Pitt (Profiles In Power). Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-05279-6.
- Ehrman, J. P. W., and Anthony Smith. "Pitt, William (1759–1806)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (2004); online 2009; accessed 12 Sept 2011
- Ehrman, John (1969–1996). The Younger Pitt (3 volumes). Constable & Co.
- Jarrett, Derek (1974). Pitt the Younger. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ASIN B002AMOXYK.
- Mori, Jennifer. "William Pitt the Younger" in R. Eccleshall and G. Walker, eds., Biographical Dictionary of British Prime Ministers (Routledge, 1998), pp. 85–94
- Mori, Jennifer. "The political theory of William Pitt the Younger," History, April 1998, Vol. 83 Issue 270, pp 234–48
- Reilly, Robin (1978). Pitt the Younger 1759–1806. Cassell Publishers. ASIN B001OOYKNE.
- Richards, Gerda C. "The Creations of Peers Recommended by the Younger Pitt," American Historical Review Vol. 34, No. 1 (Oct., 1928), pp. 47–54 in JSTOR
- Sack, James J. From Jacobite to Conservative: Reaction and Orthodoxy in Britain c.1760–1832 (Cambridge University Press, 1993), does not see Pitt as a Tory
- Sack, James J. The Grenvillites, 1801–29: Party Politics and Factionalism in the Age of Pitt and Liverpool (U. of Illinois Press, 1979)
- Wilkinson, D. "The Pitt-Portland Coalition of 1794 and the Origins of the 'Tory' party" History 83 (1998), pp. 249–64
Sumber utama
sunting- Pitt, William. The speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt, in the House of commons (1817) edisi daring
Pranala luar
sunting- 1791 Caricature of William Pitt by James Gillray
- William Pitt the Younger Diarsipkan 2008-08-25 di Wayback Machine. on the 10 Downing Street website
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Pitt, William". Encyclopædia Britannica (edisi ke-11). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Johnson, Paul (2001-01-27). "Famous last words do not always ring true. or do they?". The Spectator. Diakses tanggal 2010-04-23.
- ^ Kesalahan pengutipan: Tag
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