Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . CHATHAM. WILLIAM PITT, commonly distinguished as the Great Lord Chatham, wasborn at London, November 15, 1708, and was the son of Robert Pitt, Esq., ofBoconnoc, in Cornwall. He was educated first at Eton, and afterward at Trinitycollege, Oxford, of which he was entered a gentleman commoner in 1726. Onleaving the university he purchase
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . CHATHAM. WILLIAM PITT, commonly distinguished as the Great Lord Chatham, wasborn at London, November 15, 1708, and was the son of Robert Pitt, Esq., ofBoconnoc, in Cornwall. He was educated first at Eton, and afterward at Trinitycollege, Oxford, of which he was entered a gentleman commoner in 1726. Onleaving the university he purchased a cometcy in the regiment of the Blues ;but, urged probably by the desire of obtaining a more suitable field for the dis-play of his abilities than a military life afforded, in 1735 he procured himself tobe elected to parliament for the family borough of Old Sarum. Sir Robert Walpole was then at the head of affairs ; and Pitt immediatelyjoined the opposition, which eventually compelled that minister to retire in1742. For the part which he he was, the year after he entered par-liament, deprived by Walpole of his commission, but was compensated by beingmade one of the gentlemen of the bedchamber to Frederick prince of Wales, EARL OF CHATHAM. 261. (CHATHAM. father to George III. His eloquence, as soon as he began to take a part IDthe debates, raised him to distinction and importance ; and imperfectly as theproceedings of the house were then communicated to the public, his reputationas one of the most powerful speakers of the day seems to have rapidly spreaditself over the nation. It was in 1740, in the course of this contest with Wai-poles administration, that on a motion relating to impressment, he made hisfamous reply to Mr. Horatio Walpole, the brother of the minister, vindicatinghimself from the double charge of youth and theatrical elocution, which John-son reported with so much spirit in the Gentlemans Magazine. Walpoles administration was succeeded by that of Lo
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