Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Pitt, George (1)
Pitt, George, s. George, of Strathfieldsaye, Hants, arm. Magdalen Coll., matric. 26 Sep., 1737, aged 15; created M.A. 13 March, 1738-9, and also D.C.L. 21 Aug., 1745, of Strathfieldsaye, Hants, M.P. Shaftesbury 1747, Dorset 1747-74, envoy extraordinary Turin 1761, ambassador to Spain 1770, created Baron Rivera 20 May, 1776, lord of the bed-chamber, died 7 May, 1803. See Foster's Peerage.