The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-13
Fsmou. PIT Family Extinct.

D t,ftIetEla me y 1ne ~ " its ,o,n
dalton serves = to to. cali attention
. t. the TACT chat It no single re.
celebrated statesrnan. William pitt pitt
49, IT. OF chatham, AFTER Whom y
was ~ named y In 1858. when IT was
Connection w,tR SO ianf for Il, =
possession between zen Ehsiland and
4 france in tho Seven years s1ns Wa War, and and
lGeorge WashInetnna rece TMs 'G KS bmn nm
ftisni 81 fire TIA ri pitts e vera an anciept
Gornis, house tvho tor c en-. rnnds
their horne at poco,,nock. IN tho Prince
ar OF auHn y, true ne ,ess .l thnn vs
Children namsw thraa 10 s sess and N.Y. N.Y.
daughters. But the eldest Of the sons
the second Earl Of Cha ham. died child.
SON who took his father,s place as
premier. ana wa E,}nHr ,''G os ~ he Great
Col11illoner.,, ma we'll an his Younger
brother, Charles. a naval officer, never
have left anv natural children. Of
1.-THE great Lord chntham,s Two daurh-
| tiers. one married. n Mr. Ei,int. and feft
no descendants. while The other. LADY
third Earl stanhon ae 81 .ne ceiebrated FOR
his scIcntiffc rescarches oni Iikcwise
for Ills peculiar polIticni opinions. THIS
Lord Stanhope. Nv his marriage with
Lady Hester. had no 90 sons, but three
became the wife 81 Thomas Taylor, Of
Seven Oaks. Kant. and Lady Griseida.
who married John Tekeil. Of Ham BILE.
ton. Hampshire Neither Of them had
that eccentrio I,adv Hester Stant,opc.
who. after keepinr house FOR her I'm.
clio, the Great Commoner, until HIS
death, and having been the anace Of
Killed In the hattie Of Corunna, with.
drew to Palestine. where she spent the
remaining thirty yeare Of her life as
a Turk IN religion. in mode Of exist
natives to such an extent with her
supernatural powers that although
she openly defied all the authorities
q r. Esyant they aid not !, dare i, sod to
native domestics les with ''i rod Of iron,
over p six ree+ g ~ he ~ the most most
terrible punishments We're in store 70:
e asR i t snesz cracs to se
~ Ser nresence. and when at length
She was found dead by the British Con-
sui at Beyrout. not a single one OF the
decked had been touched, although her
attendants had decamped With every-
thing else TINT was either valuable or
portable. She. too, left no Issue.
brother iu Who o was ere Created s Lord Camel.
ford an;7"tho latter nm only son. whose
fate was in some respects almost as
strange as that OF his cousin, Lady
KilIed n e a dme1 At Wimbledon in 1851.
his hodv was prepared for conveyance
he had gwen directions that he should
be buried. AS the state Of war on
tns Isa'hs the corpse to switzerland
lust then. It was deposited in the crypt
Of st. Anne's Church. Soho, in London,
to await more convenient time;
M1 at xe snF of ord
will started to make arrangements for
the Anal interment OF Lord Ca,nelford
in Switzerland. they, found that the
body had mysteriously vanished: Nor ;,
covered Of this missing. embalmed peer
to this day. He, too. like his cousin,
Prime Minister Billy" PITT, :; and tn,
latter's younger brother, Captain the
never married and lett no issue; SO
that no descendant OF the William
FIT after whom Pittsburg was named
LETT either in the b as ns Or od the smns
family, which has played so great a
role in the American and English his
tory OF the eighteenth century at the
in ne SnnSre d and cef
tleth birthday Of P:ttsburg. Let me
add that Boconnock, the old ancestral
lone Of the Pitts at Lostwithiel. has
now been in possession for ninety
years or more Of the Fortescues. Its
present owner being John Bevll For
tescue.
OF the four new peers created by
n'ns Ris 1d premier r. Herbert Asauith. in
Connection with the recent official cele-
hYation OF his birthday, two Of them
are manufacturers OF great wealth.
s1e A" sr r u1 Arm Of wooi-eombers,
+ Holden and Sons, while George
Whiteiev Is one Of the leading cotton
SINNERS of Yorkshire. Mr.. Whitley
has obtained his peerage in rather
nmusine fashion. and owes his good
fortune In a measure to a mistake.
When il became necessary on the ac-
cession to power OF the Liberals to find
a Chief whip for the party in succes..
sion to Herbert Gladstone who had
htvm =. sele .eIsis by the late Sir Henry
Camnbell- Bannermarl for the post OF
Secretarv Of State for the Home De-
partrnent. it was decided to appoint
n IN his stend !. III. Whitley, Liberal
menber FOR Halifax, who had already
been Of a gonSS deal OF assistance to