A distant ascendant of the currently reigning King Charles III through his maternal great-grandmother, Lord William Cavendish was a British whig politician who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1756. During his premiership, he passed the Militia Act and increased taxes to fund the Seven Years War, which Britain would eventually go on to win under his successor. Due to several issues such as the opposition of the currently reigning monarch, as well as a scandal arising from his supposed mishandling of a court martial, he was forced to resign and was replaced by a coalition between Pitt and Newcastle just 225 days into his tenure.
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