Resultado de búsqueda
William Hoare - John Houston (engraver) - John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham (1756-1835) General; Governor of Gibraltar 1820-36 - mezzotint
John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham is one of the most enigmatic and overlooked figures of early nineteenth century British history. The elder brother of Pitt the Younger, he has long been consigned to history as 'the late Lord Chatham', the lazy commander-in-chief of the 1809 Walcheren expedition, whose inactivity and incompetence turned what should have been an easy victory into a disaster.
- Hardcover
- Jacqueline Reiter
16 de may. de 2024 · Their son John (born 1756) succeeded as 2nd Earl of Chatham and served in the army, becoming Lord Privy Seal and governor at various times of Plymouth, Jersey and Gibraltar. His wife Mary Elizabeth Townshend, a daughter of Thomas, 1st Viscount Sydney, was buried in the vault on 30th May 1821 aged 59.
John Pitt, 2nd earl of Chatham, died on September 24, 1835. William Pitt (also known as William Pitt the Younger) was born in Kent, England, on May 28, 1759. He attended Pembroke College at Cambridge University from 1773-1779, and studied law at Lincoln's Inn.
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–1778) Thomas Pitt, 2nd Earl of Londonderry (died 1734) Ridgeway Pitt, 3rd Earl of Londonderry (died 1765) George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers (1721–1803) Sir William Augustus Pitt (died 1809) William Morton Pitt (1754–1836) Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford (1737–1793) Lady Hester Pitt (1755–1780) John ...
6 de mar. de 2017 · John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham (studio of John Hoppner) (Courtesy of the Royal Marines Commando Forces, Stonehouse Barracks) Chatham’s brigade did not land in Holland until mid- September, and was not directly involved in any fighting until 2 October, when it played a significant role in advancing the British lines, for which Chatham was commended in the dispatches.
‘John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham’ was created in 1809 by Charles Turner in Romanticism style. Find more prominent pieces of portrait at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
