Earl of Chatham Earl of Chatham Earl of Chatham, in the County of Kent, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1766 for William Pitt the Elder on his appointment as Lord Privy Seal, along with the subsidiary title Viscount Pitt, of Burton Pynsent in the County of Somerset, also in the Peerage of Great Britain. The first Earl's wife, the former Lady Hester Grenville, daughter of the 1st Countess Temple, had earlier been created Baroness Chatham, of Chatham in the County of Kent, also in the Peerage of Great Britain, in 1761, as at that stage
Chatham Township, New Jersey that had taken its name and adopted the village form of government established in the United States for the new state of New Jersey. Shortly thereafter, Chatham adopted the borough form of government on March 1, 1897. Florham Park was formed from portions of the township on March 20, 1899. Most of Green Village has always been within the township's jurisdiction. In 1773, the village "John Day's Bridge", a community governed by the English township of Morris since its settlement in 1710, was renamed as, "Chatham", in honor of Sir William Pitt, a British prime minister and the first Earl