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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
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Pitt (William), 1749-1823 
William Pitt was born at Tettenhall, near Wolver- 
hampton, in 1749, and lived first at Pendeford, near the 
latter town, but afterwards at Edgbaston, near Birmingham. 
He died September 18, 1823, and was buried at Tettenhall. 
He contributed the volumes on Leicestershire, Northampton- 
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire to the General View 
of the Agriculture of the English counties published by the 
Boa-rd of Agriculture (1794-1813). 
The undermentioned work of this author contains a 
14 pp. annotated list of Staffordshire birds. 
1817. A | Topographical | History of Staffordshire ; | including its | Agri- 
culture, Mines, and Manufactures, | Memoirs of eminent natives ; 
| [etc. 5 lines.] | Compiled from the most authentic sources, | 
By William Pitt, | Author of [etc. 2 lines.] | Newcastle-under- 
Lyme : | Printed by and for J. Smith, | and sold by [etc. 4 lines.] 
| 1817. 
Collation — 1 vol. (2 “ departments ”), 8vo, pp. xxvi + pp. 450 + 
pp. xx un. + pp. 320 + pp. xv ind. un. 
Birds at pp. 145-58 of 2nd dept. 
Plot (Dr. Robert), 1640-96 
Plot’s name is imperishably associated with two cele- 
brated county natural histories, the first of their kind ever 
published, although the author’s predilections were more 
those of an antiquary than a naturalist. According to 
Wood’s Athenae Oxonienses (p. 339) it was Childrey’s 
Britannia Baconia (1661) that inspired Plot with the idea of 
writing his Natural History of Oxfordshire , which he intended 
to be but one of a series embracing all the counties of England 
and Wales. For an account of Dr. Plot’s intended journey 
through England and Wales, vide The Itinerary of John Leland 
(1768), vol. i. p. 165. 
He was the son of Captain Robert Plot of Borden, Kent, 
and was born at Sutton Barne — or Sutton-Barn — Kent, in 
1640, graduated M.A. in 1664 and D.C.L. in 1671, at Oxford 
University, at which he became Professor of Chemistry, as 
well as Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. He accompanied 
