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The Pitt Scholarship at the University of Cambridge was instituted in 1814 using surplus funds originally raised to erect a statue to William Pitt the Younger, supplemented with a donation from the Pitt Club in London. [1] [2] It became the pre-eminent classics University Scholarship of Great Britain. [3]

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References

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