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Thomas Pitt
(1653-1726)
NAME AUTHORITIES:
LOC:    Pitt, Thomas, 1653-1726
NRA:    Pitt, Thomas (1653-1726) East India Merchant and Governor of Madras
DNB:    Pitt, Thomas (1653–1726), merchant and politician
LBT ID: ThPitt1726    VIAF ID: 49145008    LOC ID: nr98039809		B/BAP:   1653-07-05
DIED:   1726-04-28
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; thePeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File
India merchant and MP who returned from the subcontinent with an enormous diamond, afterwards the property of Marie Antoinette. He was the grandfather of the prime minister William Pitt (1708-1778).
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