Old Sarum (constituency)
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Old Sarum was from 1295 until 1832 a parliamentary constituency of England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It was a so-called rotten borough, with an extremely sma
Old Sarum in Wiltshire, an uninhabited hill which elected two Members of Parliament. Old Sarum by John Constable, 1834.
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham was a British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768. Historians call him "Chatham" or "Pitt the Elder" to distinguish him fro
Old Sarum (constituency)
…to live there. For many years, the borough was owned by the Pitt family and was their pocket borough: one of its Members in the late 18th century was William Pitt the Elder. In 1802, the head of the family, Lord Camelford, sold the borough to the Earl of Caledon, who owned it until its abolition; the price was reported as…
Portrait by William Hoare, c. 1754
Governor Thomas "Diamond" Pitt
Lord Cobham, Pitt's commanding officer and political mentor. Pitt was part of a group of young MPs known as Cobham's Cubs.
The huge monument to William Pitt the Elder, in the Guildhall, London stands opposite an equally huge monument to his son, William Pitt the Younger in a balanced composition