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	William Pitt (the Elder), Earl of Chatham (1708-1778)
		Chatham's weaknesses, together with the activities of Grafton and Townshend, caused the collapse of Chatham's ministry.
		Chatham resigned as PM, in the middle of the Wilkes fiasco.
		Chatham was carried from the House of Lords and taken to Hayes where he died on 11 May 1778.
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	William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The lines of Chatham's policy were abandoned in other cases besides the imposition of the import duty; his opponents were taken into confidence; and friends, such as Amherst and Shelburne, were dismissed from their posts.
		But Chatham could not brook the thought of a step which implied submission to the "natural enemy" whom it had been the main object of his life to humble, and he declaimed for a considerable time, though with sadly diminished vigour, against the motion.
		The correspondence of Lord Chatham, in four volumes, was published in 1838–1840; and a volume of his letters to Lord Camelford in 1804.
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	William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, commonly known as William Pitt the Elder, (November 15, 1708 - May 11, 1778) was an English politician, born in London, who was the nominal Prime Minister and Lord Privy Seal (1766-68) and Secretary of State for the Southern Department (1756-61).
		Having been previously raised to the peerage as the Earl of Chatham, he resigned in October, 1768.
		Chatham's second son, William Pitt the Younger, was a prominent Tory statesman at the end of the 18th century.
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	Chatham N.J. Real Estate Community Information \| Homes For Sale In Chatham N.J.
		In 1773, the village was renamed to Chatham to honor a member of the British Parliament, William Pitt, the first Earl of Chatham, who was an outspoken advocate of the rights of the colonists in America.
		The citizens of Chatham were active participants in the American Revolutionary War and nearby Morristown became the military center of the revolution.
		The destruction of the historic downtown by a proposed widening of the historic route was opposed and after much debate, an alternate route was chosen to preserve the historic downtowns of Chatham and Madison.
	www.shorthillsnjrealestate.net /chatham-nj-real-estate-info.htm (1173 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Chatham County
		Situated between the Savannah River and the Ogeechee River, Chatham County is bordered by Effingham County, Bryan County, and the state of South Carolina.
		During the Civil War (1861-65), Chatham County became an important center of trade for the Confederacy, as the multitude of creeks and rivers in the area made the total blockade of the port of Savannah difficult for the Union.
		According to the U.S. census the population of Chatham County in 2000 was 232,048, with 55.3 percent white, 40.5 percent African American, and 2.3 percent Hispanic.
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	GENUKI: Earls of Great Britain (A-M)
		Chatham was, nevertheless, raised, three years afterwards, to the full rank of general.
		husband of Mary, queen of Scots, was the son of Matthew Stuart, Earl of Lennox, and grandson of Margaret, queen of James IV.
		Mortimer was seized at the castle of Nottingham, and hung at Tyburn, November 29, 1330.
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	Chatham County, North Carolina: Chatham County Community Description
		Chatham County's Agribusiness Council and the Hispanic Liaison are examples of this type of community within Chatham County.
		Chatham County is located in the geographic center of North Carolina, less than 46 miles from Raleigh, the state capital (Tetterton and Tetterton, 1998).
		Chatham County was named for the first Earl of Chatham, William Pitt, to honor his defense of American rights in the British Parliament (Hadley et al., 1976).
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	Talk: William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A man universally known as "William Pitt the Elder" is now treated under "William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham", by which he was not known, nor ever could be: the surname and the title are not used together.
		He is very frequently known as William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham.
		This should be enough for Chatham to be the name in use, since obviously isn't going to be called "Chatham" for the time before he received the title.
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	William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham''' (15 November 1708–11 May 1778) was a British statesman who achieved his greatest fame as war minister during the Seven Years War and who was later Prime Minister of the United KingdomPrime Minister of Great Britain.
		The lines of Chatham's policy were abandoned in other cases besides the imposition of the import duty; his opponents were taken into confidence; and friends, such as Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron AmherstAmherst and William Petty, 2nd Earl of ShelburneShelburne, were dismissed from their posts.
		The correspondence of Lord Chatham, in four volumes, was published in 1838–1840; and a volume of his letters to Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron CamelfordLord Camelford in 1804.
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	Chatham, William Pitt, 1st earl of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		After the fall (1742) of Walpole, Pitt was the leading critic of Lord Carteret (later earl of Granville) in his conduct of the War of the Austrian Succession.
		In 1766, Pitt was recalled to office as lord privy seal, accepted the title earl of Chatham, and formed such a broadly based ministry that it was soon impossibly divided.
		Troubled by increasing mental illness and gout, Chatham exercised little control over this administration, and his chancellor of the exchequer, Charles Townshend, not only sabotaged his plans to reorganize the East India Company but passed the ill-fated Townshend Acts (1767).
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	Chatham County Courthouse
		In 1885, the legislature authorized a referendum for Chatham County to borrow $50,000 to expand and improve the courthouse.
		By the 1970s, Chatham County joined a growing number of Georgia counties who found their current courthouse inadequate to serve the judicial, administrative, and legislative branches of county government -- but did not want to tear the historic building down.
		Chatham County, which was fifth on the list and thus is considered Georgia's fifth county, consisted of all of Christ Church Parish and that part of Saint Philip Parish south of the Canoochee River (see map).
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	John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Right Honourable John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham (9 October 1756 - 24 September 1835) was the eldest son of Pitt the Elder, and elder brother to Pitt the Younger.
		He served in various capacities in the Tory cabinets of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
		This biography of a British peer or noble is a stub.
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	Family Tree
		William Pitt the Elder, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778), the well-known statesman and father of William Pitt the Younger, was secretary of state under the Devonshire and Newcastle ministries 1757-61, presiding over the victorious years of the Seven Years' War.
		When he resigned in 1761 Pitt secured a peerage for her as Baroness Chatham (he later also adopted the title as Earl of Chatham in 1766) as well as a pension for three lives, which earned her the unkind nickname with the public of "Lady Cheat'em".
		After Pitt's death in 1806 Chatham's career went from bad to worse: he was briefly considered as a possible successor to his brother as a figurehead First Lord of the Treasury, but his role in the disastrous expedition to Walcheren in 1809 utterly destroyed his reputation.
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	Earl of Chatham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Earldom of Chatham was a peerage given to William Pitt the Elder in 1766, after which he became Lord Privy Seal.
		Pitt's wife Hester was earlier created Baroness Chatham in 1761, as at that stage her husband wished to remained a member of the House of Commons.
		John Pitt, 2nd Baron Chatham (1756-1835); had previously succeeded as Earl of Chatham
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	Chatham House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Chatham House is located at 10 St. James Square and is known in Britain as "the other number 10".
		Chatham House has a staff of 90 of whom 20 are in its "think tank" division.
		Chatham House is based on open membership and invites interested parties from the United States to enquire about membership.
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	Chatham, Conn. Vital Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The name Chatham came from a shipbuilding town in England and many settlers came from Chatham, Cape Cod, which further influenced the naming of the town.
		Chatham encompassed Middle Haddam, a stretch of land along the Connecticut River; Cobalt, a section of land centering around Route 66 and Depot Hill Road; as well as a large portion of land encircling Lake Pocotopaug.
		In 1767, the town was incorporated as Chatham in honor of the Earl of Chatham in England for his support of the American colonies at that time.
	www.gwest.org /chatham.htm (245 words)

	Georgia bed and breakfast, Savannah, GA, Hamilton-Turner Inn, luxury inn, lodging, accommodations.
		The Chatham luxury suite is perfect for family travel or a road trip with friends to your mini-Savannah vacation together.
		Chatham County is the northernmost of Georgia 's six coastal counties with Savannah as its principal city and port of commerce.
		Chatham County Georgia was formed out of Christ Church Parish and St. Phillip Parish in 1777.
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	My Corner of The World
		Outside of its largest community, Chatham, which has a population of 43,500, the muncipality is largely rural, with small towns interspersed between large areas of agricultural land.
		Chatham continued to grow into the early 20th century, with the proliferation of industry, including some of the first automobile production facilities in Canada.
		Chatham and the municipalities of Kent County were no exception to this rule, as they too were under pressure to amalgamate or face cutbacks.
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	Chatham Manor
		From his Chatham headquarters, the general supervised the repair of the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad and the construction of several bridges across the Rappahannock River.
		His visit gives Chatham the distinction of being just one of three houses visited by both Lincoln and Washington (the other two are Mount Vernon and Berkeley Plantation).
		Today the house and 85 surrounding acres are open to the the public thanks to the generosity of Chatham's last owner, industrialist John Lee Pratt.
	www.nps.gov /frsp/chatham.htm (1675 words)

	Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1746, he rode from Wentworth to Carlisle to join the Duke of Cumberland in pursuit of the "Young Pretender." Four years later, he was created Earl of Malton in the Peerage of Ireland, then acceded to his father's marquessate shortly thereafter.
		However, internal dissent within the cabinet led to his resignation and the appointment of Lord Chatham as Prime Minister (the Duke of Grafton was appointed First Lord of the Treasury, one of the few cases in which those two offices were separate).
		The Earl of Winchilsea - Lord President of the Council
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	The Ministry of William Pitt, First Earl of Chatham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Pitt the Elder finally became Prime Minister in his own right in July 1766 and was elevated to the peerage as the Earl of Chatham.
		The affair was shown in cartoons as Bute attacking liberties of Englishman because the Earl of Bute was a Scot and Scottish soldiers were called out to quell the riots.
		In October 1768, Chatham resigned as PM, in the middle of the Wilkes fiasco.
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	Chatham, NJ Description, History, and Services
		Chatham Borough and Chatham Township share a common heritage and both are often referred to by their shared name, Chatham.
		Chatham citizens were staunch revolutionaries during the revolutionary war and troops were active in the area.
		The borough seceded from Chatham Township and incorporated as a borough in 1897.
	www.chatham-nj.org /coin/chatorg1/chatham.html (977 words)

	Earl of Chatham, AGAINST A MOTION FOR ADJOURNING PARLIAMENT, DECEMBER 11, 1777. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Earl of Chatham, AGAINST A MOTION FOR ADJOURNING PARLIAMENT, DECEMBER 11, 1777.
		ONE of the ministry having moved that the Parliament do adjourn for the space of six weeks, Lord Chatham opposed the motion in the following speech, in which he dwelt on the dangerous condition of the country, as demanding the immediate attention of Parliament.
		I remember, all circumstances considered, when appearances were not near so melancholy and alarming as they are, that there were more troops in the county of Kent alone, for the defense of the kingdom, than there are now in the whole island.
	classicpersuasion.org /cbo/chatham/chat16.htm (1767 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - William Pitt
		William Pitt, the earl of Chatham, was intent on expanding Britain's colonial power.
		Because of his dynamic leadership, the British aggressively attacked the French in North America, ultimately leading to a victory in the French and Indian War (1754-1763).
		He was later known for his defense of the rights of the American colonists.
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	William Pitt the Elder, first Earl of Chatham (1708-78)
		The budget was overturned by a successful Rockinghamite motion to reduce the land tax to 3/- in the £ (pound sterling).
		It was Townshend who introduced the American Import Duties Act in 1767 in an effort to raise money from the colonies to pay for their defence even though this was against Chatham's policy.
		Eventually Chatham resigned in October 1768, leaving the Duke of Grafton to form a ministry in his own right.
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	NPG L146; The Death of the Earl of Chatham (includes John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess of Camden; William Pitt, 1st ...
		James Charles Pitt (1761-1781), Naval captain; third son of 1st Earl of Chatham.
		The painting represents the collapse of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, in the House of Lords on 7 April 1778 after speaking for every measure in favour of the British colonists in America short of actual independence.
		The fallen earl is surrounded by his three sons and his son-in-law, Lord Mahon, and is supported by the Dukes of Cumberland and Portland.
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	CHATHAM - LoveToKnow Article on CHATHAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		CHATHAM, EARL OF Pitt has disarmed criticism by acknowledging that the course he followed during Wapole's administration was indefensible.
		All due weight being given to these various considerations, it must be admitted, nevertheless, that Pitt did overstep the limits within which inconsistency is usually regarded as venial.
		Between Bute and Pitt there speedily arose an occasion of serious difference.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CH/CHATHAM.htm (1354 words)

	Earl of Chatham, ON THE SPANISH CONVENTION, MARCH 8, 1739. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Earl of Chatham, ON THE SPANISH CONVENTION, MARCH 8, 1739.
		Burke's statement respecting the merits of this question, as it afterward appeared, even to those who took the most active part against the Convention, may be found in his Regicide Peace.
		Whether Lord Chatham was one of the persons referred to by Mr.
	classicpersuasion.org /cbo/chatham/chat02.htm (1849 words)

	Chatham, William Pitt, 1st earl of on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Chatham, William Pitt, 1st earl of on Encyclopedia.com
		William Pitt, Earl of Chatham and British colonial policy: a neglected source.
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	The Death of the Earl of Chatham
		The Death of the Earl of Chatham, 1779
		On 7 April 1778, William Pitt, the first earl of Chatham, rose to speak in the House of Lords.
		The earl’s death removed one of Britain’s leading political moderates during the critical years of the American War of Independence.
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