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Definition of First Earl of Chatham
1. Noun. English statesman who brought the Seven Years' War to an end (1708-1778).
Generic synonyms: National Leader, Solon, Statesman
Lexicographical Neighbors of First Earl Of Chatham
Literary usage of First Earl of Chatham
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical Memoirs of My Own Time by Nathaniel William Wraxall (1815)
"He unquestionably commenced under most auspicious circumstances; his Birth, and
his Name, by resuscitating as it were the first Earl of Chatham, ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1835)
"... immediately after the first Earl's death; as well as another of 3,0001.
which was conferred on the first Earl of Chatham for three lives in 1761. ..."
3. The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs by Arthur Thomas Malkin (1837)
"WILLIAM PITT, the first Earl of Chatham, was born in Westminster, November 15, 1708.
He was sent to Eton at an early age, and admitted a gentleman-commoner ..."
4. The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine by Edward Hungerford Goddard (1857)
"William Pitt first Earl of Chatham was long supposed to have been born at Old
Sarum, and in this belief the editor of Seward's Anecdotes published an ..."
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