The Sheffield Pitt Club

[vox]

The Sheffield Pitt Club dined for the first time at Peech's Inn on the 28th May 1810 on which occasion the Rev Stuart Corbett was in the chair.

On Peech's Inn being given up the Club was removed to the Tontine Inn wbere it continues to be held.

The Rev Thomas Sutton presided the following year and Lieutenant Colonel Leader on the 20th of July 1812 to which day the celebration had been postponed on account of the melancholy death of the Right Hon Spencer Perceval.

On the 28th of May 1813 the chair was filled by George Bustard Greaves Esq on the same day 1814 by Samuel Walker Esq and on the 29th of May 1815 by the Rev Alexander Mackenzie.

On all these occasions a spirit of loyalty, unanimity and harmony has uniformly prevailed and, since the last celebration, rules have been adopted for giving permanency to the Institution and also to what might hitherto be called a meeting, all the privileges and regulations of a Club. According to these rules the presidents and vice presidents who have presided, or may preside at a dinner in future, constitute the committee; and any three of them attending, are competent to transact the business of the Club.

At the above mentioned meeting the committee appointed Mr John Eden to be Treasurer and Mr William Brownell, Secretary.

The present members amount to 50 and consist of the most wealthy and respectable characters in the town and neighbourhood. The motive by which they were induced to establish a Pitt Club, and the principles by which they continue to he actuated, may be inferred from the following passages, extracted from a manuscript copy of what may be termed a summary exposition of the feelings and sentiments of the Club.

"The earnest wish of this society is to manifest their admiration of and veneration fur the matchless talents of Mr Pitt not only as a statesman in the abstract, but as an able financier, a profound legislator, a wise negotiator, a most convincing and accomplished orator, and as a truly honest and disinterested man, the proof of which be not only evinced hy a life dedicated to the service of his country, but also sealed and ratified in the last solemn article of death :

"Oh save my country !"

was the expiring ejaculation of this immortal patriot; let it then be the seal of all whose wishes are to honor his memory by this Institution, and whose design is to perpetuate it, as a subject of admiration and interest to the latest posterity."

"The maintenance of regal supremacy, of loyal authority, of liberty controlled by law, of national independence, and of constitutional integrity, together with whatsoever is necessary to their stability and support, is the first and leading feature of this society, and hy which alone it is ambitious of being distinguished."

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[RichardB]

George III, Politics, Sheffield Pitt Club, glazed, Silver, member’s Medal by Wilson Shefe, bust of Pitt left, NON. SIBI. SED. PATRIAE. VIXIT, rev SHEFFIELD PITT-CLUB ESTABLISHED MDCCCX, 41mm (cf BHM 703 in bronze only). Nicely toned, the medal with minor marks thus presumably re-glazed at some stage, about extremely fine, not listed in silver in BHM.

Yours for £250.

[RichardB]

Incomprehensible ducklips relating to Pittite Clubs.

[RichardB]

1817

[SteveHB]

George III, Politics, Sheffield Pitt Club, glazed, Silver, member’s Medal by Wilson Shefe, bust of Pitt left, NON. SIBI. SED. PATRIAE. VIXIT, rev SHEFFIELD PITT-CLUB ESTABLISHED MDCCCX, 41mm (cf BHM 703 in bronze only). Nicely toned, the medal with minor marks thus presumably re-glazed at some stage, about extremely fine, not listed in silver in BHM.

Yours for £250.

Looks like they missed that bit ...

William Pitt, Tory Politician, gilt silver portrait medal from Sheffield Pitt Club 1810, 40mm, good very fine.

Estimate £30 - £50

[RichardB]

Details, such as they are, of The Chairman covering 1810-1815.

Source (as per Vox original post)

28th May 1810 Peech's Inn (Angel) 28th May 1810, Rev Stuart Corbett was in the chair.

Club moved to Tontine.

1811 Rev Thomas Sutton presided.

20th July 1812 Lieutenant Colonel Leader (celebration postponed on account of the melancholy death of the Right Hon Spencer Perceval).

28th May 1813 George Bustard Greaves, Esq.

28th May 1814 Samuel Walker, Esq.

29th May 1815 the Rev Alexander Mackenzie.

1816 - unknown

1817 - unknown

28th May 1818 President Rev. Stuart Corbet, D.D.

1819 - unknown

1820 - unknown

1821 - unknown

1822 - unknown

1823 Club did not meet.

1824 (Final meeting) J A Stuart-Wortley

[RichardB]

29th May 1815 - Members.

John Batty jun. (Landlord of the Tontine Inn)

Verdon Brittain (Cutlery manufacturer and steel converter)

Charles Brookfield (Solicitor)

Peter Brownell (Merchant and manufacturer)

Samuel Carver (Woollen draper)

G. Chandler (Rector of Treeton)

C. B. Clarke (Apprentice to John Greaves, merchant)

Rev. Stuart Corbett

John Eadon (Factor and iron monger)

Francis Fenton (Merchant)

Robert Gainsford (Silversmith)

George Greaves (Brass and iron founder)

G. B. Greaves (Cutlery merchant and manufacturer)

Richard Haystrop (Wine merchant)

George Haywood (Grocer)

John Hoult (Cutlery merchant and manufacturer)

Thomas Howard (Wine merchant)

Thomas Leader (Silver plater)

Rev. Alex MacKenzie (Vicar of St. Paul's Church)

John Newbould (Tool manufacturer and steel melter)

Samuel Newbould

Thomas Newbould

Joseph Parkin (Merchant)

Thomas Pearson (Wine and spirit merchant)

Rev. Henry Pearson (Vicar of Norton)

John Sorby (Tool manufacturer)

Peter Spurr (Merchant and manufacturer)

Richard Stanley (Banker)

Rev. Thomas Sutton (Vicar of Sheffield)

George Tillotson (Cutlery manufacturer)

William Todd (Owner of the Sheffield Mercury newspaper)

Henry L. Toll (Capt. South Devon Militia)

Robert Turner (Hosier, hatter, mercer, leather seller)

Samuel Walker (Steel smelter and banker)

S B Ward (Merchant)

John Watson (Solicitor)

Thomas Watson (Silversmith)

Sources, Local Notes and Queries, Vol. 2, p. 20; W.

Brownell's Sheffield General Directory, 1817, Sheffield;

R. Gell's, Sheffield General and Commercial Directory,

1821, Sheffield; R. Gell's, A New General and Commercial

Directory of Sheffield and its Vicinity, 1825, Manche

Source (13.5Mb)

So there

[RichardB]

Linkie-thing

Jonathan Wilson was living at 85, Fargate, in 1816, and at 30, Fargate in 1821. The Sheffield Pitt Club (which was established in 1810) decided in 1817 to have a Commemorative Medal, and Jonathan Wilson was commissioned to ...

it says.

Jonathan Wilson, Grocer, die sinker, medal & seal engraver, press cutter & Italian warehouse. 2 Pinstone Street (Baine's 1822).

[RichardB]

Prosperity and perpetuity to the Sheffield Paine Meeting. May it continue to rise on the ruins of the Pitt Club.

Source

[SteveHB]

Reference to 1815.