William Pitt the Younger, the son of William Pitt the Elder (thirty years later William Pitt the Senior Citizen) and Lady Hester Pitt was born in Kent, even though the infobox to the right says it was in London. His father was an important statesman who told Whig Prime Minister Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of Rockingham that a baby could run the country better. When Rockingham scoffed at this, Pitt placed his son on the election ticket. Pitt the Younger won by a landslide for the Tories and Watson-Wentworth went off into obscurity, starting a charitable organization for people with names based around alliteration.