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Government from 1783 to 1801 led by William Pitt the Younger From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

First Pitt ministry
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William Pitt the Younger led the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain from 1783 to 1801.

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In 1800, the Acts of Union between Great Britain and Ireland were accepted by their respective parliaments, creating the new United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (UK), which would be governed by the former Parliament of Great Britain (now the UK Parliament). Pitt governed this new state for the first month of its existence, until differences with King George III over Catholic emancipation caused him to resign.

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Cabinet

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Portrait of the Duke of Leeds by Thomas Lawrence. Appointed as Foreign Secretary while still Lord Carmarthen, he held the post from 1783 to 1791.
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  • March 1784  The Duke of Rutland becomes Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, remaining also Lord Privy Seal.
  • December 1784  Lord Gower (Lord Stafford from 1786) succeeds Rutland as Lord Privy Seal (Rutland remains Viceroy of Ireland). Lord Camden succeeds Gower as Lord President.
  • November 1787  Lord Buckingham succeeds Rutland as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
  • July 1788  Lord Chatham, Pitt's elder brother, succeeds Lord Howe as First Lord of the Admiralty.
  • June 1789  William Grenville (Lord Grenville from 1790) succeeds Lord Sydney as Home Secretary.
  • October 1789  Lord Westmorland succeeds Buckingham as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
  • June 1791 
  • June 1792  Lord Thurlow resigns as Lord Chancellor. The Great Seal goes into commission.
  • January 1793  Lord Loughborough becomes Lord Chancellor.
  • July 1794 
  • December 1794 
    • Chatham succeeds Spencer as Lord Privy Seal.
    • Spencer succeeds Chatham as First Lord of the Admiralty.
    • Fitzwilliam succeeds Westmorland as Viceroy of Ireland.
    • Lord Mansfield succeeds Fitzwilliam as Lord President.
  • February 1795  Lord Cornwallis succeeds the Duke of Richmond as Master-General of the Ordnance.
  • March 1795  Camden succeeds Fitzwilliam as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
  • September 1796  Chatham succeeds Mansfield as Lord President. Chatham remains Lord Privy Seal.
  • February 1798  Westmorland succeeds Chatham as Lord Privy Seal. Chatham remains Lord President.
  • June 1798  Cornwallis succeeds Camden as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, remaining also Master-General of the Ordnance.
  • February 1801  Grenville, Spencer, and Windham resign from the Cabinet. The first two are succeeded by Lord Hawkesbury and Lord St Vincent, while Windham's successor is not in the Cabinet.
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