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William Pitt (the Elder), Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) (2242 words) |
 | Chatham's weaknesses, together with the activities of Grafton and Townshend, caused the collapse of Chatham's ministry. |
| Chatham resigned as PM, in the middle of the Wilkes fiasco. |
| Chatham was carried from the House of Lords and taken to Hayes where he died on 11 May 1778. |
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William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (5367 words) |
| The lines of Chatham's policy were abandoned in other cases besides the imposition of the import duty; his opponents were taken into confidence; and friends, such as Amherst and Shelburne, were dismissed from their posts. |
| But Chatham could not brook the thought of a step which implied submission to the "natural enemy" whom it had been the main object of his life to humble, and he declaimed for a considerable time, though with sadly diminished vigour, against the motion. |
| The correspondence of Lord Chatham, in four volumes, was published in 1838–1840; and a volume of his letters to Lord Camelford in 1804. |
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