William Pitt Leleiohoku I was a Hawaiian noble during the Kingdom of Hawaii who married two notable princesses and served as Royal Governor of Hawaii island.
Background
Leleiohoku was born on March 31, 1821 in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. He was the son of the Prime Minister Kalanimoku who was called The Iron Pillar of Hawaii and took the English name of William Pitt after his contemporary William Pitt the Younger of England. His mother was Kiliwehi, the daughter of King Kamehameha I. She name him in honor of the date of death of Kamehameha on the Hawaiian calendar, on the night of Hoku, Kaelo (May 14).
Leleiohoku means "Fled in the time of Hoku" in the Hawaiian language.
Other accounts give his mother as Kuwahine, who was another wife of Kalanimoku and a daughter of Governor Kaikioʻewa of Kauai and Piʻipiʻi Kalanikaulihiwakama, Kamehameha I"s half-sister.
Career
He was considered of the highest hereditary descent after the king. The marriage had been arranged by the missionaries to halt a sibling marriage between King Kamehameha III and Nāhiʻenaʻena. Their Christian wedding was held in Waineʻe Church.
lieutenant was not a happy union.
lieutenant appears that Kalanimoku made a verbal disposition of his property to her (who was older than Leleiohoku) and willed that he should be the kanaka living under her. Nāhiʻenaʻena became ill after a failed pregnancy and died in 1836 at age 21.
The child was said to be his but probably could have been Kauikeaouli"son Leleiohoku married a second time to Princess Ruth Keʻelikōlani, who was daughter of Kalani Pauahi and Kekuanaoa.
He died on October 21, at in the measles epidemic of 1848, at Kekauʻōnohi"s house, aged 27.
The funeral services for Leleiohoku, Moses Kekūāiwa, and Kaiminaauao were held on December 30, 1848. They were interred in the Royal Cemetery. He was buried on the grounds of the current Iolani Palace and later remove to the Mauna ʻAla Royal Mausoleum.
Membership
He served as an original member of the House of Nobles in 1841–1846, and on the Kings Privy Council from 1845 to 1846.
