George Pitt (died 1694)

George Pitt (9 May 1625 - 27 July 1694) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1679.

Pitt was the eldest surviving son of Edward Pitt of Strathfieldsaye, Hampshire and his wife Rachel Morton, daughter of Sir George Morton, 1st Baronet of Milborne St. Andrew, Dorset. He succeeded to Stratfield Saye House on the death of his father in 1643 and served briefly as a cornet in the Royalist army from 1643 to 1644. He travelled abroad from 1644 to 1646 and was a student of Middle Temple in 1652 and Inner Temple in 1654.^[1]

Stratfield Saye House.

In 1660, Pitt was elected Member of Parliament for Wareham in the Convention Parliament. He was made gentleman of the privy chamber in June 1660 and J.P. for Hampshire and Gloucestershire in July 1660. In August 1660 he became commissioner for assessment for Dorset until 1664 and for Hampshire until 1680. He was commissioner for oyer and terminer for Middlesex in November 1660. In 1661 he was re-elected MP for Wareham in the Cavalier Parliament. He was commissioner for assessment for Westminster from 1664 to 1669 and J.P. for Westminster from 1665 to 1689. He was commissioner for assessment for Gloucestershire and Wiltshire from 1673 to 1680. In 1674 he obtained the post of comptroller to the Duke of York until 1675 and in 1675 became a freeman of Portsmouth. He was J.P. for Dorset from 1680 and commissioner for assessment for Gloucestershire, Hampshire and Wiltshire from 1689 to 1690.^[1]

Pitt died at the age of 69.^[1]

Pitt married in 1657, Lady Jane, widow successively of George, 6th Baron Chandos of Sudeley, and Sir William Sedley, 4th Baronet of Southfleet, Kent and daughter of John Savage, 2nd Earl Rivers. They had three sons and four daughters.^[1]

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