Excerpt from The British Plutarch, Vol. 8 of 8: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Statesmen, Patriots, Divines, Warriors, Philosophers, Poets, and Artists, of Great Britain and Ireland, From the Accession of Henry VIII. To the Present Time; Including, a Compendious View of the History of England
15th of November, 1708. His grandfather was Thomas Pitt, Efq; fome time governor of Ma dras, and who fold to the king of France, for I 3 the celebrated diamond, commonly known by the appellation of Pitt's diamond. His father was Robert Pitt, Efq: of Boconnock, in Corn wall After having received a liberal education, he entered into the army, and became a comet of horfe; but he feems Icon to have difcovered, as one of his biographers has exprefl'ed it, that the fenate, and not the camp, the cabinet and not the.
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