Description Charles James Fox and William Pitt the Younger were the two political giants of their day - the greatest of orators, and the fiercest of rivals.
But did the two men have anything in common? Each was a younger son of distinguished fathers, who themselves had been bitter rivals for power a generation earlier, and each came to prominence at a very young age.
Temperamentally, however, they could hardly have been more different.
Fox was genial, tolerant, gregarious, self-i.