Titlebook: Eighteenth-Century British Premiers; Walpole to the Young Dick Leonard Book 2011 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Lim

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,William Cavendish, Fourth Duke of Devonshire — ‘I Have No Motive but the King’s Service’,n Tudor times, and the Earldom of Devonshire dated from 1618. It was the fourth Earl of Devonshire, one of the original ‘Whigs’ who tried to exclude the Catholic Duke of York (James II) from the throne, who established the family as a political dynasty. When James ascended the throne in 1685, he set

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Hilfeleistungen durch die Helferin,fice: if it were, Lord Aberdeen would now rank higher than Gladstone, Baldwin higher than Churchill. Walpole was coarse, venal, ruthless and, at times, vindictive. Yet the fact that he was the longest serving, as well as the first, of Britain’s 53 prime ministers (to date) strongly suggests that he was also one of the more effective.

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Helma Lutz,Ewa Palenga-M?llenbecke prevented the War of Independence from taking place. Yet his two periods in office were extremely brief — only 1 year and 113 days in all — and during the interim period of 16 years, during which he led a principled and consistent opposition, his warnings were just as consistently ignored.

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,William Pitt, the Younger — Peacetime Prodigy, Less Successful in War,sted in conflicts in West Africa and the West Indies. Although his subsequent term as Prime Minister, in 1766–68, was a disappointment, his achievements in 1759, combined with his passionate patriotism, rare incorruptibility and soaring oratory established him as Britain’s outstanding eighteenth century political leader.