then-Secretary of State Pitt. He also named the settlement between the rivers "Pittsborough", which would eventually become known as Pittsburgh. Chatham University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Chatham, Massachusetts Pittsfield, Massachusetts Pittsfield, New Hampshire Pittsfield Charter Township, Michigan Pittsgrove Township, New Jersey Pittstown, New Jersey Pittston, Pennsylvania Pittston Township, Pennsylvania Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and its county seat, Chatham Pittsboro, North Carolina Chatham Square, New York City The short-lived, sparsely-colonised, extralegal colony of Vandalia (located in modern West Virginia and named after Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz) was originally named Pittsylvania after Pitt. Canada Chatham Township, Quebec. Chatham, Ontario CFB Chatham, near Chatham, New Brunswick Australia Pitt Town, New South Wales, named after Pitt by Governor Macquarie in 1810 Chatham, New South Wales Ecuador Chatham Island, Galápagos New Zealand Chatham Islands an archipelago including Pitt Island and Chatham Island References in popular culture Pitt is referred to in the Simpsons episode "Homer at the Bat", where Barney and guest star Wade Boggs get into a bar fight after a heated debate over the subject of who was England's greatest Prime Minister. Boggs claims Pitt the Elder was the greatest Prime Minister to Barney's Lord Palmerston, causing Barney to punch Boggs in the face, knocking him unconscious. Pitt is briefly derided (but does not appear) in the Blackadder The Third episode "Dish and Dishonesty". Blackadder states that he is "about as effective as a catflap in an elephant house". In The Two Georges, an alternate history by Harry Turtledove, William Pitt was the Prime Minister during a period of political tension between Great Britain and its North American colonies. He played a significant role in easing those tensions and ensuring the colonists remained content British subjects. He was also one of the historical figures in Thomas Gainsborough's fictional painting The Two Georges, depicting George Washington being presented to King George III. In 1770, Laurence Sterne dedicated his masterpiece, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman to the rt. hon. Mr Pitt. In 1790, Scotland's Bard, the poet Robert Burns, referred to Pitt in his Scots language poem, "Lines To A Gentleman", which Burns composed in response to being sent a newspaper, which the gentlemen sender offered to continue providing free of charge. The poet's satirical summary of events makes clear that he has no interest in the reports contained in the newspaper. The poem's section on events in Parliament, which refers to Pitt as