New-York tribune., 1908-07-13
PITTSBURG'S BIRTHDAY
No Descendant of Pitt Left to At
tend Its 10th unnecessary.
rcOpyrisht. 1905. by the Brentwood Company ]

copyright. 1908 by the Brentwood Companyl
Pittsburgs impending celebration of the both
anniversary of its foundation serves to call atten-
ton to the fact that single representative re-
mains OF the celebrated statesman William Pitt,
first Earl of Chatham after whom 1t was named
in 115s, when It brought into existence to take
the place of Fort Duquesne. so famous In connec-
ton with the struggle for its possession between
England and France in the Seven Years var ana
through the fact that It there that George
Washington received his baptism of fire. The Pitts
were ancient Cornish house, who for centuries
made their home at Boconnock, In the Prince OF
Waess duchy. True, William Pitt, Earl OF Chat-
ham, left no fewer than FIVE children namely three
and two daughters. But the eldest OF the
sons the second Earl of Chatham, died chtldless,
while William Pitt, the second son, who took mis-
fathers place Premier and was known as the
Great Commoner," well as his younger brother'
Charles, naval oficer, never married and are not
known TO have left any natural children VI
the great Lord Chathern's daughters one mar
ried Mr.. Elliot and left no descendants, whhe
the other Lady Hester Pitt became the wlfe Oh tne
third Earl Stanhope, celebrated for MS scaehtne
researches and likewise for his peculiar Poiticai
opinions. This Lord StanhOpe by his marriage "ieh
Lady Hester had no sons, but three daughters,
namely, Lady Lucy, who became the wire Oh
Thomas Taylor. of Sevenoaks, Kent, ana Lazy Gri-
selda who married John Toskel, of Hambleton,
Hampshire. Neither of them had any FANNY Inc
third daughter that eccentric Lady hester
Stanhope who after keeping house for her uncle.
the Great Commoner. until his death, and having
been the fancee of General Sir John Moore. VINO
killed in the battle of Corunna Wlthore" TO
Palestine, where she spent the remaining thirty
wears of her life as a. Turk in religion in mode of
existence and in dress tmpressng the natives
to such an extent with her supernatural powers
that although she openly dehed all the author1tles
of the Levant they did not dare to molest her
She ruled her numerous native domestcs with a
rod Of iron, and by the force of muscle-she was
over six feet In height-apd the most terrible pun
ishments were in store for them If they presumed
to smile cough sneeze or scratch themselves
her presence, and when at length she was
found dead by the British Consul at Beyrout not
single one of the magnificent jewels with which
she was decked had been touched, although her
attendants had decamped with everything else
that was either valuable portable. She, too IeIt
issue.
The first Lord Chatham had an only brother
who was created Lord Camelford, and the latter
had an only son, whose fate was in some re-
spects almost strange as that of his cousin
Lady Hester Stanhope. For, having been killed
IN duel at Wimbledon, in 1904 his body was
prepared for conveyance to the shores Of Lake
Geneva, where he had given directions that he
should be buried AS the state Of war on the
Continent rendered 1t difficult to transport the
corpse TO Switzerland just then, 1t deposited
in the crypt Of St. Anne's Church, Soho, in Lon
don, to await more convenient time When at
length peace restored and the executors of
LORD Carnel1oroS Will started 10 make arrange
ments for the final interment of Lord Camelford
in Switzerland they found that the body had
mysteriously vanished. Nor has any trace
ever been discovered of this missing embalmed
peer to this day. He, too, like his cousin. Prime
Minister Billy Pitt and the latter's younger
brother Captain the Hon. John Pitt, of the Royal
NAVY never married and left no issue, so that
no relative of the William Pitt after whom
Pittsburg named is left either in the male
or the female line represent this fine old Cor
nish family which played great role in the
American and English history of the eighteenth
century, the festivities in connection with the
celebration of the 15Gth birthday Of Pfttsburg-
Let me add that Boconnock. the cid ancestral
home of the Pitts, at Lostwithiel, has now been
in possession for ninety years or more of the
Forte.cues, its present owner being John Beyil
Fortescue.