The Younger Pitt: Volume III, The Consuming Struggle

The Younger Pitt #3

by John Ehrman

This is the concluding volume of a three-volume, widely acclaimed biography of William Pitt the Younger, who was Prime Minister of England from 1783 to 1801 and from 1804 to his death in 1806. The present volume covers the years from 1797 to his death, a period filled with momentous events.

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First published May 1, 1996

About the author

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The son of a businessman, John Patrick William Ehrman was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected to a fellowship in 1947. Though a specialist in British history in the late-17th and 18th centuries, he was seconded to the Cabinet Office and wrote two of the volumes of the official history of Britain in the Second World War. After publishing a volume on the Royal Navy in the war of William III, he turned his attention to writing a multi-volume biography of William Pitt the Younger, a project that would occupy the next four decades of his life.

Ehrman was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1970 and served as a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery from 1971 until 1985 and as a member of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts from 1976 until 1994. He was the head of the National Manuscripts Conservation Trust from 1989 until 1994, and he served twice as vice-president of the Navy Records Society.