William Pitt, William Pitt, Mary Russell Mitford, and Great House of Lyme Regis black plaque

Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, United Kingdom

This house occupies part of the site of what was originally known as the Great House of Lyme Regis. Here lodged in the summer of 1773 William Pitt (1708-1778), first Earl of Chatham, the great War Minister of George II, and his son William Pitt (1759-1806), the great Prime Minister of George III. Al

so for some months in 1796-1797 it was the home of Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855) essayist & dramatist

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