Eighteenth-Century British Premiers

1. Introduction — The Road to the Prime Ministership
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2. Robert Walpole, First Earl of Orford — ‘All These Men Have Their Price’
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3. Spencer Compton, First Earl of Wilmington — ‘George II’s Favourite Nonentity’
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4. Henry Pelham — Pragmatic Heir to Walpole
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5. Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle — Mighty Panjandrum, Feeble Premier
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6. William Cavendish, Fourth Duke of Devonshire — ‘I Have No Motive but the King’s Service’
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7. John Stuart, Third Earl of Bute — the King’s ‘Dearest Friend’
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8. George Grenville — Able Premier, Undermined by His Own Prolixity
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9. Charles Watson-Wentworth, Second Marquess of Rockingham — the Conscience of the Whigs
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10. William Pitt, the Elder, First Earl of Chatham — ‘I am Sure That I Can Save This Country, and That Nobody Else Can’
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11. Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Third Duke of Grafton — Well-Intentioned Dilettante
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12. Frederick North, Styled Lord North — Outstanding Parliamentarian, Pity about the Colonies. …
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13. William Petty, Second Earl of Shelburne — Too Clever by Half
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14. William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Third Duke of Portland —Twice a Figurehead Premier
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15. William Pitt, the Younger — Peacetime Prodigy, Less Successful in War
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16. Epilogue
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Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political History, History of Britain and Ireland, History, general, Modern History, Political Science, Social History