Ridgeway_Pitt,_3rd_Earl_of_Londonderry

Ridgeway Pitt, 3rd Earl of Londonderry

Ridgeway Pitt, 3rd Earl of Londonderry

British politician and Irish and British peer

Ridgeway Pitt, 3rd Earl of Londonderry (1722 – 1765) of Soldon[1] in the parish of Holsworthy in North Devon, was a British politician and peer.

Arms of Pitt: Sable, a fesse chequy argent and azure between three bezants

Origins

He was the younger son of Thomas Pitt, 1st Earl of Londonderry and was a first cousin of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham ("Pitt the Elder"), twice prime minister of Great Britain.

Career

His older brother, Thomas Pitt, 2nd Earl of Londonderry (1717-1734), died in a riding accident in 1734, when Ridgeway succeeded to his titles.[2] In 1740 he was admitted to St John's College, Cambridge.[3] He took his seat in the Irish House of Lords on 29 October 1743. As his title was in the Peerage of Ireland, he was not barred from election to the House of Commons of Great Britain and sat as a Member of Parliament for the rotten borough of Camelford in Cornwall between 1747 and 1754.[4]

Death

Londonderry never married. Upon his death, his titles became extinct.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Romney R. Sedgwick, biography of PITT, Ridgeway, 3rd Earl Londonderry [I] (?1722-65), of Soldon, Devon, published in History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970
  2. [2]
    John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland, Volume 2 (J. Leathley, 1754), 127.
  3. [3]
    "Pitt, Ridgway (Earl of Londonderry) (PT740R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. [4]
    John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland, Volume 2 (J. Leathley, 1754), 127.
  5. [5]
    John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland, Volume 2 (J. Leathley, 1754), 127.
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