Education
Pitt was educated at Winchester College, leaving in 1719 to study at New College, Oxford.
Pitt was educated at Winchester College, leaving in 1719 to study at New College, Oxford.
His translations into English include Virgil"s Aeneid and Vida"s Art of Poetry. He was also Rector of Pimperne, near Blandford Forum in Dorsetshire, a post given him by a relation, George Pitt. He held it for the rest of his life.
Pitt died in 1748.
On his tombstone at Blandford Forum is the inscription:
In memory of
CHR. PITT, Clerk, M. A.
Very eminent for his talents in poetry,
and yet more
for the universal candor of
his mind, and the primitive
simplicity of his manners. He lived innocent,
and died beloved
April 13. 1748.
aged 48.