1784 British general election
The 1784 British general election resulted in William Pitt the Younger securing an overall majority of about 120 in the House of Commons of Great Britain, having previously had to survive in a House which was dominated by his opponents.
Image: George Romney xx William Pitt the Younger xx Tate Britain
Image: Reynolds Charles James Fox
Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin Covent Garden Market, Westminster Election
Thomas Rowlandson THE DEVONSHIRE, or Most Approved Method of Securing Votes 1784. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire canvassing.
William Pitt was a British statesman, the youngest and last prime minister of Great Britain from 1783 until the Acts of Union 1800, and then first prime minister of the United Kingdom from January 1801. He left office in March 1801, but served as prime minister again from 1804 until his death in 1806. He was also Chancellor of the Exchequer for all of his time as prime minister. He is known as "Pitt the Younger" to distinguish him from his father, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, who had previously served as prime minister and is referred to as "William Pitt the Elder".
Portrait by John Hoppner, c. 1804–05
William Pitt by Joseph Nollekens, 1808
Statue of Pitt at Pembroke College, Cambridge, his alma mater
The huge monument to William Pitt the Younger by J. G. Bubb in the Guildhall, London, faces an equally huge monument to his father, William Pitt the Elder, in a balanced composition
