William Morton Pitt, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetWilliam Morton Pitt
16 May 1754 - 28 February 1836
Date of Birth: 
About William Morton Pitt
- William Morton Pitt, FRS (16 May 1754 – 28 February 1836) was a British Member of Parliament.
- He was the eldest son of John Pitt of Encombe House, Dorset and educated at Queen’s College, Oxford.
- He entered Lincoln's Inn to study law in 1774.
- In 1780 he was returned to Parliament as the Member for Poole, which he represented until 1790 after which he represented Dorset from 1790 to 1826. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1787.
- He died in 1836.
- He had married twice; firstly Margaret, the daughter of John Gambier, Governor of the Bahamas, with whom he had a daughter, and secondly Grace Amelia, the daughter of Henry Seymour of Hanford, Dorset, with whom he had 2 sons and a daughter.
Read more at Wikipedia