Early Life
William Pitt was born in 1855 two years after his parents William Pitt, an artist, and Jane, née Dixon emigrated to Australia from Sunderland in England.
He was raised in the suburb of St Kilda and was educated at the Hofwyl School in St Kilda and later attended George Henry Neighbour's college in Carlton. He later moved to the suburb of Abbotsford.
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