First Pitt the Younger Ministry

The First Pitt the Younger Ministry was formed in the Kingdom of Great Britain by William Pitt the Younger in 1783. In 1800, the Acts of Union between Great Britain and Ireland were accepted by their respective parliaments, creating the new United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which would be governed by the former Parliament of Great Britain, now the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Pitt governed this new state for the first month of its existence, until differences with King George III over Catholic Emancipation caused him to resign.

List of Ministers

1783 − 1801

For the first several days of the ministry, Lord Temple held both the secretaryships of state.


OFFICE	NAME	TERM

First Lord of the Treasury Chancellor of the Exchequer	William Pitt the Younger	1783–1801

Lord Chancellor	The Lord Thurlow	1783–1792
Lord President of the Council	The Earl Gower	1783–1784
Lord Privy Seal	The Duke of Rutland	1783–1784
Foreign Secretary	The Marquess of Carmarthen	1783–1791
Home Secretary	The Lord Sydney	1783–1789
First Lord of the Admiralty	The Viscount Howe	1783–1788
Master-General of the Ordnance	The Duke of Richmond	1784–1795

Changes

March, 1784 - The Duke of Rutland becomes Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, remaining also Lord Privy Seal.
December, 1784 - Lord Gower (Lord Stafford from 1786) succeeds the Duke of Rutland as Lord Privy Seal (Rutland remains Viceroy of Ireland). Lord Camden succeeds Gower as Lord President.
November, 1787 - Lord Buckingham succeeds the Duke of 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 Wyndham Grenville (Lord Grenville from 1790), succeeds Lord Sydney as Home Secretary.
October, 1789 - Lord Westmorland succeeds Lord Buckingham as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland
June, 1791 - Lord Grenville succeeds the Duke of Leeds (Lord Carmarthen before 1789) as Foreign Secretary. Henry Dundas succeeds Grenville as Home Secretary. Lord Hawkesbury (from 1796 the Earl of Liverpool), the President of the Board of Trade, joins the Cabinet.
June, 1792 - Lord Thurlow resigns as Lord Chancellor. The Great Seal goes into commission.
January, 1793 - Lord Loughborough becomes Lord Chancellor
July, 1794 - Lord Fitzwilliam succeeds Lord Camden as Lord President. Henry Dundas takes the new Secretaryship of State for War, while the Duke of Portland succeeds Dundas as Home Secretary. Lord Spencer succeeds Stafford as Lord Privy Seal. William Windham enters the Cabinet as Secretary at War.
December, 1794 - Lord Chatham succeeds Spencer as Lord Privy Seal. Lord Spencer succeeds Chatham as First Lord of the Admiralty. Lord Fitzwilliam succeeds Lord Westmorland as Viceroy of Ireland. Lord Mansfield succeeds Fitzwilliam as Lord President.
February, 1795 - Lord Cornwallis succeeds the Duke of Richmond as Master-General of the Ordnance.
March, 1795 - Lord Camden succeeds Lord Fitzwilliam as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.
September, 1796 - Lord Chatham succeeds Lord Mansfield as Lord President, remaining also Lord Privy Seal.
February, 1798 - Lord Westmorland succeeds Lord Chatham as Lord Privy Seal. Chatham remains Lord President.
June, 1798 - Lord Cornwallis succeeds Lord Camden as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, remaining also Master-General of the Ordnance.
February, 1801 - Lord Grenville, Lord Spencer, and William Windham resign from the Cabinet. The first two are succeeded by Lord Hawkesbury and Lord St Vincent, while Windham's successor is not in cabinet.

References

Chris Cook and John Stevenson, British Historical Facts 1760-1830

Preceded by Fox-North Coalition	Government of Great Britain 1783–1801	Succeeded by Acts of Union

Preceded by Acts of Union	Government of the United Kingdom 1801	Succeeded by Addington Ministry

British governments

18th century	Godolphin–Marlborough Harley Townshend First Stanhope–Sunderland Second Stanhope–Sunderland Walpole–Townshend Walpole Carteret Broad Bottom First Newcastle Devonshire–Pitt 1757 caretaker Second Newcastle Bute Grenville First Rockingham Chatham Grafton North Second Rockingham Shelburne Fox–North Coalition First Pitt the Younger

19th century	Addington Second Pitt the Younger Ministry of All the Talents Second Portland Perceval Liverpool Canning Goderich Wellington Grey First Melbourne Wellington Caretaker First Peel Second Melbourne Second Peel First Russell Who? Who? Aberdeen First Palmerston Second Derby Second Palmerston Second Russell Third Derby First Disraeli First Gladstone Second Disraeli Second Gladstone First Salisbury Third Gladstone Second Salisbury Fourth Gladstone Rosebery Third Salisbury

20th century	Balfour Campbell-Bannerman First Asquith Second Asquith Lloyd George Bonar Law First Baldwin First MacDonald Second Baldwin Second MacDonald First National Second National Third National Fourth National Chamberlain War Churchill War Churchill Caretaker Attlee Third Churchill Eden Macmillan Douglas-Home First Wilson Heath Second Wilson Callaghan First Thatcher Second Thatcher Third Thatcher Major Blair

21st century	Brown First Cameron Second Cameron

Current ministry

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