Find out more about the greatest 18th Century British Political Leaders, including William Wilberforce, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, William Pitt the Younger, Charles James Napier and Robert Peel.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington01 May 1769
Former First Lord of the Treasury of the United
William Pitt the Younger28 May 1759
Youngest Prime Minister of Britain
William Wilberforce24 August 1759
Abolitionist
Robert Peel05 February 1788
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Robert Clive25 September 1725
British Military Officer
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey13 March 1764
Former Prime Minister of United Kingdom
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham15 November 1708
The Great Commoner
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany16 August 1763
Duke of York and Albany
George Canning11 April 1770
Former British Prime Minister
John Wilkes17 October 1725
English journalist
Lord North13 April 1732
Feargus OConnor18 July 1794
Chartist Leader
Spencer Perceval01 November 1762
Politician, Lawyer
Lord William Bentinck14 September 1774
Former Governor-General of India
Arthur Phillip11 October 1738
Navy officer
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool07 June 1770
Politician
Richard Henry Lee20 January 1732
Politician, Judge
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland14 April 1738
Politician
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh18 June 1769
Statesman
George Grenville14 October 1712
Politician
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth30 May 1757
Politician
Henry Pelham25 September 1694
Politician
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville25 October 1759
Former British Prime Minister
Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat05 January 1667
Politician
Button Gwinnett10 April 1735
Representative of Georgia to the Continental
Charles James Napier10 August 1782
Officer
Edward Rutledge23 November 1749
Politician
Duke of Wellington01 May 1769
Thomas McKean19 March 1734
Lawyer, Politician, Judge
William Cobbett09 March 1763
Journalist
William Huskisson11 March 1770
Statesman
Mountstuart Elphinstone06 October 1779
Statesman
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Oliver Wolcott20 November 1726
Politician
George Clymer16 March 1739
Politician
Edward Gibbon Wakefield20 March 1796
British colonial administrator
Francis Lightfoot Lee14 October 1734
Politician
Lewis Morris08 April 1726
Politician
Philip Livingston15 January 1716
Merchant, Politician
Arthur Middleton26 June 1742
Politician
William Paca31 October 1740
Politician, Lawyer, Judge
William Whipple14 January 1730
Politician, Officer
Abraham Clark15 February 1726
Politician, Lawyer
Sir Edmund Andros06 December 1637
Colonial official
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury26 February 1671
Politician
James Butler, 2nd duke of Ormonde29 April 1665
Statesman
Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley20 June 1760
Politician
John Stuart, Earl of Bute25 May 1713
Stephen Hopkins (Politician)07 March 1707