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.

The Right Honourable William Pitt
Perdana Menteri Britania Raya
Masa jabatan 10 Mei 1804 – 23 Januari 1806
Penguasa monarki	George III
Pendahulu The Viscount Sidmouth Pengganti The Lord Grenville
Masa jabatan 19 Desember 1783 – 14 Maret 1801
Penguasa monarki	George III
Pendahulu The Duke of Portland Pengganti The Viscount Sidmouth (Sebagai Perdana Menteri Kerajaan Serikat)
Menteri Keuangan Britania Raya
Masa jabatan 10 Mei 1804 – 23 Januari 1806
Penguasa monarki	George III
Pendahulu Henry Addington Pengganti Lord Henry Petty
Masa jabatan 19 December 1783 – 14 March 1801
Penguasa monarki	George III
Pendahulu Lord John Cavendish Pengganti Henry Addington
Masa jabatan 10 July 1782 – 31 March 1783
Penguasa monarki	George III
Pendahulu Lord John Cavendish Pengganti Lord John Cavendish
Jabata parlementer Anggota Parlemen untuk Universitas Cambridge Masa jabatan 18 Mei 1784 – 23 Januari 1806 Pendahulu Lord John Townshend Pengganti Lord Henry Petty Anggota Parlemen untuk Appleby Masa jabatan 8 Januari 1781 – 30 Maret 1784 Pendahulu William Lowther Pengganti John Leveson-Gower
Informasi pribadi
Lahir	(1759-05-28)28 Mei 1759 Hayes, Kent
Meninggal	23 Januari 1806(1806-01-23) (umur 46) London
Kebangsaan	Britania Raya
Partai politik	Tory (scholar consensus) Independent Whig (self description)
Almamater	Pembroke College, Cambridge
Tanda tangan
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Kutipan

• "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)
• "...the foulest and most atrocious deed." (in reference to the execution of King Louis XVI of France)
• “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

• 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

• Pitt, William. The speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt, in the House of commons (1817) edisi daring

Pranala luar

• 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.