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  1. William Pitt m: Mary Gibbs , st Mary’s Bristol, daughter of Henry Gibbs merchant, 1578 c both took part in blockade of Cadiz for Elizabeth 1 , Thomas pit B: 1653 gov east India co , Pitt dimond , made regular visits to Holland to buy sails , Williams farther Thomas D: 1613 aldermen of Bristol, family Pitt the elder , Pitt the younger, others cannon, vicars and priest, I have not confirmed but someone has added the astronaut Christa Mc Auliffe who died in the Challenger disaster to the tree

  2. Major Peter Kington, 6th Dragoon Guards. Very slightly wounded in the leg during the assault of Buenos Eyes on 5/6 July, and died of tetanus (lock-jaw) from that wound on 14 July 1807. He married, on 28 Oct. 1799, Urania Annie Paulet (c. 1767-1843), the only daughter of the English courtier George Paulet (1722-1800), the 12th Marquess of Winchester, and had issue. Urania was the widow of Henry de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricade, who had died in 1797. After Peter Kington’s death, she married for the third time, in 1813, Vice-Admiral Sir Joseph Sidney Yorke. While stationed in Ireland Major Kington had insisted on court-martialing a junior officer on such frivolous grounds (for calling his horse a “rip”) that the court was reduced to laughter. “And so ended this affair, adding one to the long list of courts-martial assembled for frivolous objects. It ought, however, to stand apart, so far as being the funniest court-martial in military records.” [Lt.-Col. Wilkie].

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