William Pitt the Younger William Pitt the Younger (28 May 175923 January 1806) was a British statesman, the youngest and last prime minister of Great Britain (before the Acts of Union 1800) and then first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, prime minister of the Un ...

led the government of the

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from 1783 to 1801. In 1800, the Acts of Union between Great Britain and Ireland were accepted by their respective parliaments, creating the new

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(UK), which would be governed by the former Parliament of Great Britain (now the

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). Pitt governed this new state for the first month of its existence, until differences with

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over

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caused him to resign.

Cabinet

Changes

*March 1784The Duke of Rutland becomes

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, remaining also Lord Privy Seal. *December 1784Lord Gower (Lord Stafford from 1786) succeeds Rutland as Lord Privy Seal (Rutland remains Viceroy of Ireland).

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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 William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, (25 October 175912 January 1834) was a British Pittite Tory politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1806 to 1807, but was a supporter of the Whigs for the duration of ...

(Lord Grenville from 1790) succeeds Lord Sydney as Home Secretary. *October 1789 Lord Westmorland succeeds Buckingham as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. *June 1791 **Grenville succeeds the Duke of Leeds (Lord Carmarthen before 1789) as Foreign Secretary. **

Henry Dundas Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, PC, FRSE (28 April 1742 – 28 May 1811), styled as Lord Melville from 1802, was the trusted lieutenant of British Prime Minister William Pitt and the most powerful politician in Scotland in the late 18t ...

succeeds Grenville as Home Secretary. ** Lord Hawkesbury (from 1796

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), the

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, joins the Cabinet. *June 1792Lord Thurlow resigns as Lord Chancellor. The Great Seal goes into commission. *January 1793

Lord Loughborough Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, PC, KC (3 February 1733 – 2 January 1805) was a Scottish lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1761 and 1780 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Loughborough. He ser ...

becomes Lord Chancellor. *July 1794 ** Lord Fitzwilliam succeeds Camden as Lord President. **Dundas takes the new Secretaryship of State for War, while the

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succeeds him as Home Secretary. ** Lord Spencer succeeds Stafford as Lord Privy Seal. **

William Windham William Windham (4 June 1810) of Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk, was a British Whig statesman. Elected to Parliament in 1784, Windham was attached to the remnants of the Rockinghamite faction of Whigs, whose members included his friends Charles J ...

enters the Cabinet as

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. *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 William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, PC, SL (2 March 170520 March 1793) was a British barrister, politician and judge noted for his reform of English law. Born to Scottish nobility, he was educated in Perth, Scotland, before moving to L ...

succeeds Fitzwilliam as Lord President. *February 1795

Lord Cornwallis Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805), styled Viscount Brome between 1753 and 1762 and known as the Earl Cornwallis between 1762 and 1792, was a British Army general and official. In the United ...

succeeds the Duke of Richmond as Master-General of the Ordnance. *March 1795

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succeeds Fitzwilliam as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. *September 1796Chatham succeeds Mansfield as Lord President. Chatham remains Lord Privy Seal. *February 1798Westmorland succeeds Chatham as Lord Privy Seal. Chatham remains Lord President. *June 1798Cornwallis succeeds Camden as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, remaining also Master-General of the Ordnance. *February 1801Grenville, 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.

Notes

References

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