Educated at Eton and University College, Oxford, he was a Whig MP aligned with Burke and Fox and Secretary at war in the Pitt administration, 1794-1801.

REFERENCES TO William Windham:

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [23 January 1800] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 22 June 1800 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Thomas Creevey to James Currie, 25 November 1802 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Thomas Creevey to James Currie, 21 December 1803 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Samuel Rogers to Henry Mackenzie, 24 March 1805 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Thomas Creevey to James Currie, 28 July 1805 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Walter Scott to George Ellis, 25 January 1806 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Sydney Smith to Lady Holland, 21 April 1810 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

James Hodgson to Francis Hodgson, 16 May 1810 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)

Francis Hodgson to James Hodgson, 15 June 1810 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)

Sydney Smith to John Allen, 13 January 1814 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

William Cobbett to Walter Ramsden Fawkes, 12 November 1822 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Robert Southey to Henry Taylor, 2 December 1837 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)