Tag: Fox
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William Pitt the Younger’s Incredible Story of Service to the Nation
William Pitt the Younger is the last of Britain’s Eighteenth century Prime Ministers. At 24 he was the youngest PM ever, one of Parliament’s greatest orators, created the first Australian penal colonies, oversaw establishment of the United Kingdom and so, so much more. He’s hugely important. Click and read.
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Duke of Portland is a Figurehead to the Fox-North Coalition
Portland may have been called Prime Minister, but think of him as PM in name only. Behind him were two big beasts…and, formerly bitter rivals: Radical Whig and Foreign Secretary Charles James Fox (1749-1806) and Tory and Home Secretary Lord Frederick North (1732-1792). Portland’s in there, click for more.