When William Pitt was born about October 1860, in Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Charles Peter Pitt, was 42 and his mother, Mary Salisbury, was 38. He lived in East Lockinge, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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English: from Middle English pytte, pitte ‘pit’, ‘hollow’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a pit or hollow, or a habitational name from a place called with this word, as for example Pitt in Hampshire.
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