Christopher Pitt

Short Name: Christopher Pitt
Full Name: Pitt, Christopher, 1699-1748
Birth Year: 1699
Death Year: 1748

Pitt, Christopher, M.A., was born at Blandford, Dorsetshire, 1699, and died 1748. He translated the Æneid, and Vida's Art of Poetry. He was educated at New College, Oxford, and was Rector of Pimperne, Dorsetshire.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Christopher Pitt (1699 – 13 April 1748) was an English clergyman poet; he was also a translator whose performance was esteemed in his day.
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