Liddington
Pitt left Swindon in 1882 to become Rector of All Saints' Church in Liddington. He married Alice Mary Kinneir in 1882 in Christchurch, Alice was the daughter of Solicitor and Churchwarden Henry Kinneir.
Pitt was to remain at Liddington for the next 54 years, the only time he lived elsewhere was during the period 1916-1917 when he served with the Church Army in France.
William and Alice had five children, Alice born in 1884, William in 1886, Edith in 1887, Clifford in 1889 and Audrey in 1892.
Clifford died on 1 February 1915 in Baumu, British East Africa. An Oxford graduate, he had embarked on a career in Colonial Administration and died aged 26 of acute Sunstroke. His parents placed a memorial window for him in Liddington Church.
Alice died in mysterious circumstances on 23 June 1928, she was found dead at the bottom of a well amongst the farm buildings close to the Rectory. The coroners report stated "found drowned in a Well, there being no evidence of her state of mind".
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