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Earl Chatham is in Earldoms of England Alphabetically, Earldoms of England Chronologically, Extinct Earldoms of England.
Summary
4th August 1766. William "The Elder" Pitt 1st Earl Chatham created.
11th May 1778. Son John Pitt 2nd Earl Chatham succeeded.
24th September 1835. John Pitt 2nd Earl Chatham extinct.
On 4th August 1766 William "The Elder" Pitt 1st Earl Chatham (age 57) was created 1st Earl Chatham. Hester Granville Countess Chatham (age 45) by marriage Countess Chatham.
On 11th May 1778 William "The Elder" Pitt 1st Earl Chatham (age 69) died. His son John (age 21) succeeded 2nd Earl Chatham. He was initally bured at Hayes. After an address by the Commons to the king praying that the deceased statesman might be buried with the honours of a public funeral a sum was voted for a public monument which was erected over a new grave in Westminster Abbey. The monument, by the sculptor John Bacon, has a figure of Pitt above statues of Britannia and Neptune with figures representing Prudence, Fortitude, the Earth and also a sea creature. See Photograph by John Benjamin Stone
On 10th July 1783 John Pitt 2nd Earl Chatham (age 26) and Mary Elizabeth Townshend Countess Chatham were married. She by marriage Countess Chatham. He the son of William "The Elder" Pitt 1st Earl Chatham and Hester Granville Countess Chatham (age 62). They were half fifth cousin once removed.
On 24th September 1835 John Pitt 2nd Earl Chatham (age 78) died. Earl Chatham, Baron Chatham of Chatham in Kent extinct.