William Pitt the Younger.
William Pitt the Younger (1759 - 1806) was a Cabinet minister in the government of Sir Charles Jenkinson during the Trans-Oceanic War of 1795-99. He was the son of William Pitt the Elder, who was Prime Minister twice between 1757 and 1768, and Hester Grenville, the sister of George Grenville, who was Prime Minister between 1763 and 1765.
The younger Pitt was born in Kent on 28 May 1759, while his father was leading his first government during the Seven Years' War. He was educated at home before entering Cambridge University in 1773, graduating three years later without passing his examinations. His father died in 1778, leaving his title of Earl of Chatham and the bulk of his estate to Pitt's elder brother, John Pitt, while Pitt himself received only a small inheritance.
Pitt ran for a seat in the House of Commons in 1780, but lost. The following year, James Lowther ran Pitt for a seat in a pocket borough that allowed him to enter the Commons. Like Charles James Fox, Pitt supported Lord North's Britannic Design, which organized the North American colonies into the Confederation of North America. Also like Fox, the mutual antipathy between Pitt and King George III and his support for radical reforms to the government kept him in the opposition until Prime Minister Jenkinson added him to his Cabinet shortly before the outbreak of the Trans-Oceanic War. Pitt supported Jenkinson's policy of refusing to negotiate with the French and Austrians until the Anglo-Prussian armies had decisively defeated them. It was only after gaining victory on the battlefield that the Jenkinson government negotiated the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1799.
Sobel makes no further mention of Pitt after the end of the war.