Editing William Pitt the Younger (section)

===Death===
The setbacks took a toll on Pitt's health. He had long suffered from poor health, beginning in childhood, and was plagued with [[gout]] and "[[biliousness]]", which was worsened by a fondness for [[port wine|port]] that began when he was advised to consume it to deal with his chronic ill health.<ref>{{cite web |author=Marjie Bloy |date=4 January 2006 |title=William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806) |url=http://www.victorianweb.org/history/pms/pitt.html |website=The Victorian Web |access-date=11 September 2011}}</ref> On 23 January 1806, Pitt died at Bowling Green House on [[Putney|Putney Heath]], probably from [[peptic ulcer]]ation of his stomach or [[duodenum]]; he was unmarried and left no children.{{sfn|Hague|2005|p=578}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Bowling Green House, Putney Heath |work=The Private Life of William Pitt (1759-1806) |url=http://www.theprivatelifeofpitt.com/2013/11/bowling-green-house-putney-heath.html |date=13 November 2013 |access-date=31 August 2014 |archive-date=25 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725145250/http://www.theprivatelifeofpitt.com/2013/11/bowling-green-house-putney-heath.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Pitt's debts amounted to £40,000 ({{Inflation|UK|40000|1806|r=-5|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}) when he died, but Parliament agreed to pay them on his behalf.<ref name="histparl">{{cite web |title=PITT, Hon. William (1759–1806), of Holwood and Walmer Castle, Kent |url=http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1790-1820/member/pitt-hon-william-1759-1806|website=The History of Parliament |access-date=1 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=William Pitt the Younger |website=Regency History |url=http://www.regencyhistory.net/2012/07/william-pitt-younger-1759-1806.html?m=1 |access-date=1 July 2016}}</ref> A motion was made to honour him with a public funeral and a monument; it passed despite some opposition. Pitt's body was buried in [[Westminster Abbey]] on 22 February, having lain in state for two days in the [[Palace of Westminster]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Fitzwilliam Museum |year=1978 |title=Cambridge Portraits from Lely to Hockney |publisher=Cambridge University Press |series=Exhibition catalogs, No. 86 |isbn=9780521223119}}</ref>

Pitt was succeeded as prime minister by his first cousin [[William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville]], who headed the [[Ministry of All the Talents]], a coalition which included Charles James Fox.{{sfn|Hague|2005|p=581}}