William Windham, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

William Windham

British politician, died 1810

Date of Birth: 14-May-1750

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 04-Jun-1810

Profession: politician

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About William Windham

  • William Windham (14 May [O.S.
  • 3 May] 1750 – 4 June 1810) was a British Whig statesman.
  • Elected to Parliament in 1784, Windham was attached to the remnants of the Rockinghamite faction of Whigs, whose members included his friends Charles James Fox and Edmund Burke.
  • Windham soon became noted for his oratory in the House of Commons. An early supporter of the French Revolution, by late 1791 he shared Burke's hostility to it and became a leading anti-Jacobin.
  • After war was declared on France in early 1793, he broke with the antiwar, pro-Revolution Foxite Whigs to form a small 'Third Party' that was independent of Pitt's government but supportive of the war effort.
  • Like Burke, Windham supported the war as an ideological crusade against Jacobinism and was an enthusiastic supporter of the French émigrés and a Bourbon restoration.
  • In July 1794 he finally joined Pitt's government as Secretary at War but did not control war policy.
  • He discovered that Pitt did not share his enthusiasm for the Bourbon cause and he argued in Cabinet against a peace agreement with the French Republic. In February 1801 Windham followed Pitt in resigning from the government over the King's rejection of Catholic Emancipation.
  • He was the leading opponent of the new Prime Minister Henry Addington's peace with France in late 1801 and early 1802.
  • In the Ministry of All the Talents in 1806-7, Windham became Secretary for War and the Colonies, having reconciled with the Foxites.
  • He resigned with them from the government, again over Catholic Emancipation.
  • He spent the rest of his life in opposition, dying in 1810.

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