 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 346 pagina’s
...feelings of the majority of "the nation. The ministry being now defeated in their most favourite scheme, a struggle took place between them and the opposition,...and meetings for this purpose were held at the St. Alban's Tavern. These not pi-oving successful, for neither party would give way, and it becoming absolutely... | |
 | Horace Twiss - 1844 - 660 pagina’s
...Canning received his Majesty's commands to form a Government ; but on the 12th, when he kissed hands as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, he found himself shorn of more than half the strength of the Tory party. He had now to construct a Ministry... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1861 - 642 pagina’s
...offices with efficient men. When the arrangements were completed, Pitt stood at the head of the Cabinet as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was the fifth Premier the House had seen in twenty-one months ; and so overwhelming was the Opposition,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 pagina’s
...offices with efficient men. When the arrangements were completed, Pitt stood at the head of the Cabmet as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was the fifth Premier the House had seen in twenty-one months ; and so overwhelming was the opposition,... | |
 | Edgar Sanderson - 1882 - 460 pagina’s
...as a Scotchman and a favourite tlon' of the Princess of Wales. George Greuville now became premier, as first lord of the treasury and chancellor of the exchequer. He was a man of more courage than discretion, and his policy involved the crown and the country in unseemly... | |
 | James Taylor - 1882 - 280 pagina’s
...advantage of the king's death to retire from office, and that Peel should undertake the government as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He had long been of opinion, he said, that ' it is desirable that the power of the Government should be... | |
 | Scottish History Society - 1895 - 416 pagina’s
...kindness to these Scotch gentlemen. 1 James, first Earl Stanhope, who in 1717 succeeded Lord Townshend as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He had commanded the British army in Spain from 1708 to 1710 ; and when a prisoner at Saragossa, after... | |
 | James Butler Duke of Ormonde - 1895 - 432 pagina’s
...kindness to these Scotch gentlemen. 1 James, first Earl Stanhope, who in 1717 succeeded Lord Townshend as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He had commanded the British army in Spain from 1708 to 1710 ; and when a prisoner at Saragossa, after... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1898 - 556 pagina’s
...North. He disclaimed indeed the title of Prime Minister, as a term unknown to the Constitution ; but as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer he was more than any other person responsible to the country for the policy that was pursued, and but... | |
 | Thomas Frederick Tout - 1912 - 870 pagina’s
...pr|me hend and Walpole came back to office, and in 1721 minister, Walpole became the chief minister as first lord of the ' ' treasury and chancellor of the exchequer. He was the ablest financier of his generation, and his judicious measures soou restored public credit... | |
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Pitt was placed as first lord of the Treasury and chancellor of the Exchequer. He could not/ however, succeed in his measures in the house of commons: the majority were still the adherents of the coalition ministry, and the business of the nation stood... 
