{{Short description|English landowner and politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}} {{Use British English|date=December 2017}} {{Infobox person | name = <!-- defaults to article title when left blank --> | birth_date = 1592 | death_date = 1643 | burial_place = Stratfieldsaye | occupation = Politician | years_active = 1624-1643 <!-- 1623 as start because that's when he ecame a freeman of Poole; this is the earliest formal civic engagement.--> | father = William Pitt | mother = Edith Pitt }} '''Edward Pitt''' (1592–1643) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1624.

Pitt was the son of Sir William Pitt and his wife Edith Cadbury, daughter of Nicholas Cadbury of Arne, Dorset.<ref name=Burke>[https://books.google.com/books?id=seAKAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22William+Pitt%22+%22Comptroller%22&pg=PA353 John Burke ''A General and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of ..., Volume 2'']</ref> He was a teller in the Exchequer. In 1624, he was elected Member of Parliament for Poole in the Happy Parliament. In the Civil War he was seized by parliamentary forces at his home Stratfield Saye House in 1643 and imprisoned in Windsor Castle. He died a week after his release.<ref name = HOP_edward>[https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/pitt-edward-1592-1643 History of Parliament Online - Edward Pitt]</ref>

Pitt married Rachel Morton, daughter of Sir George Morton, 1st Baronet of Milborne St. Andrew, Dorset. Their son George was also an MP.<ref name=HOP_george>[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/pitt-george-1625-94 History of Parliament Online - George Pitt]</ref>

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{{s-start}} {{s-par|en}} {{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Poole | before= Sir Walter Erle | before2= Sir George Hussey | with= Sir Walter Erle | years=1624 | after= John Pyne | after2= Sir John Cooper }} {{s-end}}

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