- GREAT COMMONER, WILLIAM PITT
- who became Earl Chatham (q.v. CHATHAM, WILLIAM PITT).
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
GREAT COMMONER, WILLIAM PITT
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