BORN 15 NOVEMBER 1708. DIED 11 MAY 1778. William was born in 1708, the younger son of Robert Pitt of Cornwall and Harriet, daughter of the Hon. Edward Villiers of Ireland. He was educated at Eton and ...

William Hague goes into the General Election campaign hoping to become Britain's youngest Prime Minister since William Pitt in 1783. But the 40-year-old also faces the prospect of becoming one of ...