#William Pitt the younger

[not-a-fool-entire]

more terrible memes

school is killing me, will return with better quality stuff once my final exams are over :'D

[illustratus]

William Pitt the Younger by George Romney 

[lordcastaway]

sad boy birthday

[napoleonic-confessions]

[werewolfetone]

William Pitt the Younger

[jrkyy]

@mvchiavelli YOUUUU *insert jesse yelling “he cant keep getting away with this* —— anyways here’s Honest Billy in Brat by her 😭

[nordleuchten]

In the mean while Every Monarch on this Continent trembles at the irresistible power of france—it Has Been lately attempted to draw the Swedish, danish, and prussian Courts into a Coalition Against Her, But in Vain—the Kings of Sardinia and Naples wear still their Crowns—the Radstat peace is not yet Concluded—the last news were favourable—Mr Pitt who is personally interested to Blow the fire, and the Russian Emperor whose folly Has taken an Anti Gallican turn are in Hopes that the House of Austria will Come in Again

The Marquis de La Fayette to George Washington, August 20 and 21, 1798

“To George Washington from Lafayette, 20–21 August 1798,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-02-02-0430. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 2, 2 January 1798 – 15 September 1798, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, pp. 539–545.] (03/26/2024)

[empirearchives]

Napoleonic caricatures from 1805

[pitt-able]

William Pitt’s "Records"

Pitt was the youngest Prime Minister to ever assume office (and he likely will be able to keep this distinction.) He was 24 years and 205 days old when he assumed office. The next oldest Prime Minister was Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton who was 33 years and 16 days old when he assumed office.

He was also the second longest serving Prime Minister with a total tenure of 18 years and 345 days before he died in office. Only Robert Walpole, Britain’s first Prime Minister served longer - with a tenure of 20 years and 315 days.

Pitt was however the longest inhabitant of Downing Street Number 10. While he spend pretty much all of his Premiership in Number 10 (there was some delay with moving in), Walpole only moved in during September of 1735 (his term ended on February 11, 1742). George II had offered Downing Street 10 as a private gift to Walpole in 1732 but he refused to accept unless Downing Street would become an official residence for office holders.

Speaking of dying in office, Pitt was one of seven Prime Ministers to die in office. (Which, might I add, means that 12.5% of all Prime Ministers (56, the current one not included) died in office. That is an eight of all office holders – and there is also a number of Ministers who died within weeks of leaving office.)

From these seven, he was the youngest to die in office for Pitt died aged 46 years and 240 days. Out of all Prime Ministers, there was only one who died younger. William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, died aged 44 years and 147 days.

Pitt also was one of 17 men who had two or more terms as Prime Ministers. The record holder here is William Ewart Gladstone with four terms.

Pitt also has the dubious distinction of being the first Prime Minister to fight a duel while in office. The Duke of Wellington would later be the second and last Prime Minister to do so.

Pitt was one of only four Prime Ministers who never married.

While many, many Prime Minister had some type of kinship with each other, either by blood or by marriage, Pitt had some of the more direct relations to other Prime Ministers. He and his father, William Pitt the Elder (very conveniently named) were one of only two father-son-couples. The Young Pitt and Lord William Grenville were furthermore the only full cousins. Pitt and George Grenville were also one of two uncle-nephew-couples who filled the office of Prime Minister.

Last but not least, enjoy this lovely sentence from Wikipedia. The modern equivalent of over three Million … let that sink in.

[dickensianenglishbulldog]

Time to play a game of who was the handsomest prime minister!

Perhaps your head is turned by Pitt the younger!

Such purity of expression!

Or perhaps it’s good old Benjamin ‘Dizzy’ Disraeli!

Sultry eh?

But your all wrong! The most handsome prime minister is….

(Drum roll please….)

Winston Churchill.

Yes,

Winston.

Leonard.

Spencer.

Churchill.

That great pudding of a man was dishy as hell as a young chappie!

[18thcentury]

Can't stop thinking about a thicc Billy Pitt

Artist: Isaac Cruikshank

[ministerforpeas]

John Major blames his predecessors!

[drinkthemlock]

homophobia is obviously horrible and senseless in any time period but in the 18th century it took particularly nonsensical turns. like yeah shoe laces are gay. so are umbrellas (kinda). and some specific colors. bitch.

[lordcastaway]

some pitts!!! and canning but he is practically family after all that gay shit so

[pinkcarsupremacy]

Okay in all the drama of yesterday's race I feel like we overlooked the F1 movie teaser and we need to talk about what the hell was going on in that.

So we start with 60yo racer Brad Pitt telling the audience and uh someone else that their car is beat on the straights by "Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes, Aston and now Mclaren" (as an Alpine fan I understand the plight) and that their only chance of beating the other teams is to battle in the turns and I quote "we need to build our car for combat" (never underestimate Americans and their ability to turn something into a war analogy)

After that bizzare statement the following exchange occurs:

Yeah fuck safety!! The FIA is actually involved with the making of this film if you're wondering.

From here on there isn't actually anymore dialogue and it's just a bunch of racing and track team shots set to 'We will Rock You'. It was here that it dawned on me that this movie is gonna be super bizzare. Despite all the noise about them filming on track at live race weekends it never occured to me the other drivers and teams would actually feature in it. I'm not even sure what I thought they were going to do but I assumed it would involve a lot of CGI.

But nope turns out this is actually just a strange self-insert film where an 11th team featuring 60yo Brad Pitt and his younger teammate will compete against real F1 drivers? The $300 million budget is starting to make sense - maybe they had to pay the other drivers a salary. I think one glaring problem with this is that it means there won't be other characters in the movie (excluding team members of the fake team) because the other drivers and team members are uh real people? Now that would be fine if it was a biopic like Rush where everyone are actors but here we have 2 actors and 20 real drivers (who are quite literally at work btw) and any interaction between them and the actors is gonna break the immersion of the film so badly.

Sidenote here's one of the Apex cars abusing a Williams - not the kind of behaviour that endears me to either of the fake drivers ngl. Probably should have picked a more disliked team to clown on.

Now I actually went and read an interview with the 2 directors to try and work out what is going on. At one point in this interview, Jerry Bruckheimer says: "It’s the only sport where your teammate is also your competitor, and that’s great drama in itself. Just think about that; you’re fighting with your own teammate for a place on the podium. And everything we use in the movie actually happened in an F1 race. Nobody can say: ‘That would never happen.’ It happened."

So in other words the teammates will fight and it will be based on real life events? Yeah unfortunately I'm getting Perez and Ocon in Force India vibes from that (those 2 shots pretty similar huh).

There was also this in the interview which is... I mean I don't really know what to take from this but it's certainly interesting. As an Ocon fan this quite literally strikes fear into my heart (why was he of all drivers named...) but we'll have to wait and see I guess.

[werewolfetone]

This was basically the late 18th century in UK politics summarised right