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4 unusual facts about George Pitt


Edward Holdsworth

Holdsworth visited Rome in 1741, in the company of George Pitt, and in September 1742 he paid, in company with Thomas Townson and others, long visits to France and Italy, returning home with Townson by way of Mont Cenis in the autumn of 1745.

George Pitt

George Morton Pitt (1693-1756), administrator of India and later British Member of Parliament for Pontefract

George Dean Pitt (1772 or 1781–1851), British soldier and Lieutenant-Governor of the former New Zealand Province of New Ulster

George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers

Rivers Inlet, a fjord on the Central Coast of British Columbia, was named by Captain George Vancouver for George Pitt.



see also

George Pitt Morison

George Pitt Morison (31 August 1861 – 4 September 1946) was an Australian painter and engraver noted particularly for his painting The Foundation of Perth 1829 which was commissioned as part of Western Australia's centenary celebrations, and presented to the Art Gallery of Western Australia in February 1929.

Thomas FitzWilliam, 4th Viscount FitzWilliam

He married secondly Elizabeth Pitt, daughter of George Pitt of Strathfieldsaye; she was a distant cousin of William Pitt the Elder.