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Hace 2 días · After returning to England in 1709, Thomas Pitt started looking for buyers for his exceptional diamond. In 1717, the gem was sold for about £135,000 to Philippe II, the Duke of Orleans, appointed Regent after King Louis XIV after his death in 1715. Since then, the diamond was known as the Regent Diamond.
Hace 4 días · Later on the risk of contests seems to have been eliminated. Thomas Pitt (d. 1761) was in a position to 'pawn' the constituency to the Treasury, who nominated the members in 1761, and in 1816 Lord Caledon was described as the borough-monger.
Hace 3 días · His grandson, Thomas Pitt, Esq., was, in 1784, created Lord Camelford, Baron of Boconnoc; the title became extinct by the death of his only son, the second Lord Camelford, in 1804. Boconnoc is now the occasional residence of the Right Hon. Lord Grenville, who married Anne, his only sister and heir.
Hace 5 días · Pitt. Sable a fesse checky argent and azure between three bezants . Early in the 18th century Abbotts Ann was the property of Thomas Pitt, governor of Madras, who purchased Little Ann in 1710, (fn. 28) and probably acquired the neighbouring manor about the same date.
Hace 4 días · Brad Pitt protagoniza una de las mejores cintas de ciencia ficción recientes al ponerse en la piel de Roy McBride, un astronauta que busca a su padre perdido.
Hace 4 días · An important commission was alterations to William Pitt the Younger's Holwood House in 1786, Soane had befriended William Pitt's uncle Thomas on his grand tour. In 1787 Soane remodelled the interior of Fonthill Splendens (later replaced by Fonthill Abbey) for Thomas Beckford, adding a picture gallery lit by two domes and other work.
Hace 3 días · Thomas Pitt is the protagonist in a series of books by Anne Perry. Set in Victorian London, the series traces the rise of Pitt from a policeman of low social standing to the Head of the Special Branch with deep connections to the elite stratum of society.
