UK Elections Info

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Born: 28 May 1759, Hayes, Kent

Died: 16 January 1806

Member of Privy Council - 10 July 1782

Pembroke College, Cambridge (1773 - 1776)

Lincoln's Inn (- 1780)

Chancellor of the Exchequer	July 1782	31 March 1783
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury	19 December 1783	14 March 1801
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury	10 May 1804	16 January 1806

9 September 1780	Cambridge University	Tory	142	27.79
8 January 1781	Appleby	Tory	Unopposed
July 1782 Resignation of William Pitt on appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
5 August 1782	Appleby	Tory	Unopposed
19 December 1783 Resignation of William Pitt on appointment as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury.
3 January 1784	Appleby	Tory	Unopposed
3 April 1784	Cambridge University	Tory	351	63.30
6 April 1784	Bath	Tory	14	48.28
17 June 1790	Cambridge University	Tory	510	85.00
1792 Resignation of Rt Hon William Pitt on appointment to government office.
18 December 1792	Cambridge University	Tory	Unopposed
25 May 1796	Cambridge University	Tory	Unopposed
5 July 1802	Cambridge University	Tory	Unopposed
10 May 1804 Resignation of Rt Hon William Pitt on appointment as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury.
17 May 1804	Cambridge University	Tory	Unopposed
16 January 1806 Death of Rt Hon William Pitt.