Edward Pitt

{{Short description|English landowner and politician}}

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{{Use British English|date=December 2017}}

{{Infobox person

| name =

| birth_date = 1592

| death_date = 1643

| burial_place = Stratfieldsaye

| occupation = Politician

| years_active = 1624-1643

| father = William Pitt

| mother = Edith Pitt

}}

Edward Pitt (1592-1643) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1624.

Pitt was the son of Sir William Pitt and his wife Edith Cadbury, daughter of Nicholas Cadbury of Arne, Dorset.[https://books.google.com/books?id=seAKAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22William+Pitt%22+%22Comptroller%22&pg=PA353 John Burke A General and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of ..., Volume 2] He was a teller in the Exchequer. In 1624, he was elected Member of Parliament for Poole in the Happy Parliament. In the Civil War he was seized by parliamentary forces at his home Stratfield Saye House in 1643 and imprisoned in Windsor Castle. He died a week after his release.[https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/pitt-edward-1592-1643 History of Parliament Online - Edward Pitt]

Pitt married Rachel Morton, daughter of Sir George Morton, 1st Baronet of Milborne St. Andrew, Dorset. Their son George was also an MP.[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/pitt-george-1625-94 History of Parliament Online - George Pitt]