Reminiscences of Wiltshire Boroughs: … William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, was first returned to Parliament in 1735 for the vacant mounds which went by the name of Old Sarum. Governor Pitt purchased the manor in 1690 for £1,500 and it afterwards passed into the hands of Lords Granville, Caledon and Camelford. The latter, during his proprietorship, sent John Horne Tooke to the House of Commons in 1801. The whole of the West Country was full of the fame of the elder Pitt. Sir William Pynsent, the last of his name, bequeathed Burton Pynsent to the great Minister “in his veneration of a great character of exemplary virtue and unrivalled ability” …
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