Hester Pitt, Countess of Chatham
British noblewoman (1720–1803) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hester Pitt, Countess of Chatham (née Grenville; 8 November 1720 – 9 April 1803) was the wife of William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham, who was prime minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768.[1]
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Born | Hester Grenville (1720-11-08)8 November 1720 London, England |
Died | 9 April 1803(1803-04-09) (aged 82) Burton Pynsent, Somerset, England |
Buried | Westminster Abbey |
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The sister of George Grenville, who was prime minister from 1763 to 1765, she was also the mother of Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger and a niece of the noted Whig politician Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, who had served as her husband's mentor.
Chatham and Elizabeth Grenville, her sister-in-law, are the only two women in British history to have been both the wife of a prime minister and the mother of another prime minister.