The Pitt family were an English aristocratic family whose members included the Earls of Chatham, the Earls of Londonderry and the Barons Camelford. The family produced two British Prime Ministers:

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (15 November 170811 May 1778) was a British people, British British Whig Party, Whig politician, statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768. Historians call him "Chatham" or "Pit ...

, and his son

William Pitt the Younger William Pitt (28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806) was a British statesman who served as the last prime minister of Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain from 1783 until the Acts of Union 1800, and then first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, p ...

. The family's fortunes were boosted greatly by

Thomas Pitt Thomas Pitt (5 July 1653 – 28 April 1726) was an English merchant, colonial administrator and politician who served as the president of Fort St. George from 1698 to 1709. Born in Blandford Forum, Dorset, he eventually went to the Indian ...

who while serving as

Governor of Madras This is a list of the governors, agents, and presidents of colonial Madras, initially of the English East India Company, up to the end of British colonial rule in 1947. English Agents In 1639, the grant of Madras to the English was finalized ...

acquired the

Regent Diamond The Regent Diamond is a diamond owned by the French state and on display in the Louvre, worth £48,000,000 . Mined in India and cut in London, it was purchased by the regent of France in the early 18th century. History Discovery According ...

and sold it on at a great profit in 1717.

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Other relatives

Robert Nedham Robert Nedham (1703 – August 1762) was a British-Jamaican plantation owner and politician who sat in the House of Commons for the rotten borough of Old Sarum from 1734 to 1741. Early life Robert Nedham was the son of Robert Nedham, a slave own ...

, married Catherine Pitt daughter of

Robert Pitt Robert Pitt (1680 – 21 May 1727) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1705 to 1727. He was the father and grandfather of two prime ministers, William Pitt the elder and William Pitt the younger. Early life Pitt was th ...

and

Harriet Villiers Lady Harriet Pitt (née Villiers; 1680 – 21 October 1736) was an Anglo-Irish noblewoman who was the mother and grandmother of two British prime ministers, William Pitt the elder and William Pitt the younger. Family Villiers was born into Anglo ...

, on 21 May 1733. *

Louisa Pitt Louisa Pitt (1754/56–1791) was the second daughter of the British diplomat and politician George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers (1721–1803), and his wife, Penelope Atkins. Pitt was born in 1754 (or 1756) in Stratfield Saye, Southampton, Hampshire ...

married into the

Beckford family The Beckford family was an aristocratic English family in Jamaica. They were known for their involvement in the slave trade and owning plantations in the West Indies in the 17th century. Family members * Peter Beckford of Maidenhead ** Peter B ...

marrying Peter Beckford

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pitt English families Noble families of the United Kingdom People from Hampshire Families of prime ministers of Great Britain