PITT, William (d.1725), of Cricket Malherbie, Som.

Returned for Bridgwater as a Whig after a contest at the by-election following the death of George Dodington, Pitt did not stand in 1722, when his cousin Samuel Pitt, a London merchant, unsuccessfully contested the borough. He died about June 1725. His wife subsequently married George Speke of Dillington, whom Pitt had appointed one of his executors.PCC 142 Romney; Som. Wills (ser. 2), p. 37; (ser. 3), p. 122.