Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford
- Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford
Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford (3 March 1737 – 19 January 1793) was a British politician. He was the son of Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc (d. 1761), a brother of William Pitt the Elder. He was a Member of Parliament of the House of Commons for Old Sarum from December 1761 until 1768, for Okehampton from 1768 until 1774, and again for Old Sarum from 1774 until he was raised to the peerage in 1784. Pitt was a well known patron of the arts in his time.
In 1771 Pitt married Anne Wilkinson with whom he had two children, Thomas and Anne.In his biography of Horace Walpole, Timothy Mowl says Pitt was ahomosexual who "was 'outed' by that early queer-basher Mrs. Thrale".
Pitt died from gout in or near Florence, Italy in 1793.
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