John Pitt (of Encombe)

John Pitt (~1706 – 1787) of Encombe House, Dorset was a British M.P. for 35 years from which there remains one reported speech to Parliament.

John was the fourth son of George Pitt (1663–1735) M.P. of Strathfieldsaye and second son by his second wife née Lora Grey of Kingston Maurward nr Dorchester. He was educated at Queen's College, Oxford.

The property enabling George Morton Pitt's control of the Pontefract seat came to John Pitt (of Encombe) by remainder but he sold it in 1766.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1775.

Constituencies:

Wareham was a parliamentary borough in Dorset, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom The borough was the town of Wareham on the Isle of Purbeck, a market town close to Poole Harbour. In 1831, the population of the borough was 1,676, and it contained 364 houses.

Dorchester was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Dorchester in Dorset. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons.

His one reported speech was on a petition of West Country merchants who complained of French encroachments at Newfoundland.

He died in 178. He had married, on 26 January 1753, Marcia daughter of Mark Anthony Morgan of Cottelstown County Sligo and they had one daughter and four sons including William Morton Pitt of Kingston House, Dorset.

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