![]() ![]() ![]() 3 Yet Chatham and the assiduous tutor Edward Wilson had evidently decided that William could cope with a college environment in spite of his youth and continued illnesses. A sample of undergraduate admissions to Pembroke Hall in the twenty years preceding Pitt’s arrival there suggests that fewer than one in five of them were even under eighteen. ‘He was always the most lively person in company, abounding in playful wit and quick repartee but never known to excite pain, or to give just ground of offence.’įOR A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD to be admitted as an undergraduate to Cambridge University was highly unusual in the eighteenth century, just as it would be today. THE EARL OF CHATHAM TO JOSEPH TURNER OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE 1 Too young for the irregularities of a man, I trust, he will not, on the other hand, prove troublesome by the Puerile sallies of a Boy.’ An ingenious mind and docility of temper will, I know, render him conformable to your Discipline, in all points. ![]() ‘He is of a tender Age, and of a health not yet firm enough to be indulged, to the full, in the strong desire he has to acquire useful knowledge. ![]()
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