The Walpole Ministry and the 1739 War with Spain. Boydell Press, 1998. Historiography Moncure, James A. (ed.) Research Guide to European Historical Biography: 1450–Present (4 vol 1992); 4:1629–39 Primary sources External links More about The Earl of Chatham, William Pitt 'The Elder' on the Downing Street website. William Pitt's Defense of the American Colonies Bronze Bust of William Pitt by William Reid Dick (1922) to Pittsburgh Mayor William A. Magee, by Charles Wakefield, 1st Viscount Wakefield William Pitt Collection. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. 1708 births 1778 deaths People from Westminster Pitt, William Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford Pitt, William British MPs 1734–1741 British MPs 1741–1747 British MPs 1747–1754 British MPs 1754–1761 British MPs 1761–1768 Prime Ministers of Great Britain Secretaries of State for the Southern Department Paymasters of the Forces Lords Privy Seal Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Privy Council of Great Britain British people of the French and Indian War Earls in the Peerage of Great Britain Peers of Great Britain created by George III Burials at Westminster Abbey 18th-century heads of government Leaders of the House of Commons of Great Britain Fellows of the Royal Society William Parents of prime ministers of the United Kingdom 1st King's Dragoon Guards officers British people of the Seven Years' War MPs for rotten boroughs Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Okehampton