George Pitt, 2nd Baron Rivers
- George Pitt, 2nd Baron Rivers
George Pitt, 2nd Baron Rivers (1751-1828) was a British politician.
He was the only son of George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers and his wife Penelope, daughter of Sir Henry Atkins, 4th baronet of Clapham, Surrey. He succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for Dorset in 1774, retaining the seat until 1790. In 1803, he succeeded his father as Baron Rivers. He was a Lord of the Bedchamber from 1804 to 1819.
He sold part of the family estates, those around Stratfield Saye House to the nation in about 1814, so that it could be given to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. On his death in 1828, one of his baronies (Baron Rivers of Stratfieldsaye), but the other passed (like his remaining estates) to his brother in law became William Beckford, who thereupon took the surname Pitt-Rivers. ["Burke's Peerage" (1939), s.v. Rivers]
References
*G. F. R. Barker, ‘Pitt, George, first Baron Rivers (1721–1803)’, rev. R. D. E. Eagles, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", (Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22328] , accessed 24 Aug 2008
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