The Death of the Earl of Chatham The Death of the Earl of Chatham The Death of the Earl of Chatham is the title of a 1781 oil-on-canvas painting by Boston-born American artist John Singleton Copley. It depicts the collapse of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham on 7 April 1778, during a debate in the House of Lords on the American War of Independence. Chatham is surrounded by peers of the realm, and the painting contains fifty-five portraits. Lord Chatham was the architect of the British victory in the Seven Years' War (1757–1763), in which Britain won supremacy in America. Although sympathetic to American grievances and
Chatham kaka Chatham kaka The Chatham kaka or Chatham Island kaka ("Nestor chathamensis") is an extinct parrot species previously found on the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. The first individuals were thought to belong to the kaka ("Nestor meridionalis"), but detailed examination of the subfossil bones showed that they actually belong to a separate endemic species. The species became extinct within the first 150 years of the arrival of the Polynesians around 1550, long before any European settlers. No skins or descriptions are available. The Chatham kaka is assigned to the genus "Nestor" in the family Nestoridae, a small group of parrot species