biography
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| lived:
| (1653–1726)
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| biography:
| Merchant, born in Blandford St Mary, Dorset, S England, UK. He became a wealthy East India merchant, Governor of Madras, and purchaser of the Pitt diamond, which he sold in 1717 to the French regent to become one of the state jewels of France. He was the grandfather of William Pitt, the Elder. |
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