[8][9] Biographer William Hague considers the unfinished abolition of the slave trade to be Pitt's greatest failure.
[10] It was this gutting of Dundas's plan that caused the Slave Trade Bill to fail.
By rejecting the incremental approach in Dundas's 12-point plan, the abolitionists lost their opportunity to win support in the House of Lords.
[3] Knatchbull died aged 61, after a short illness, at his son's house at Provender, Kent and was buried in Mersham.
[13] A younger son was probably John Knatchbull, a naval captain and convict found guilty of murder in 1844; who was one of the earliest to raise in a British court the plea of moral insanity (unsuccessfully).