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John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham, KG, PC (9 October 1756 - 24 September 1835) was the eldest son of William Pitt the Elder and an elder brother of William Pitt the Younger. He served in various capacities in the Tory cabinets of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
General John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham, KG, PC (9 October 1756 – 24 September 1835) was a British peer and soldier. He was the eldest son of William Pitt the Elder and an elder brother of William Pitt the Younger. He was commissioned into the 47th Regiment of Foot in 1774. Later he served in various capacities, including First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the ...
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.
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.
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Hace 6 días · 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’ was created in 1809 by Charles Turner in Romanticism style. Find more prominent pieces of portrait at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
