Son of Thomas Pitts I, apprenticed to his father of Air Street, Piccadilly. Goldsmith, Citizen and Goldsmith, March 1769. Free, 3rd November 1784. First mark entered as plateworker, 18th December 1781. Address: 17 St Martin’s Street, Leicester Fields. Second mark, 4th May 1786. Address: 26 Litchfield Street, Soho. Third mark, in partnership with Joseph Preedy, 11th January 1791, same address. Moved to 8 Newport Street, St. Ann’s, 3rd August 1795. Fourth mark alone, 21st December 1799. Address: 15 Little Wild Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Fifth mark, 5th March 1806. Address: 14 James Street, Lambeth Marsh. His son, William, was apprenticed to his father on 5th February 1806. The latter was then already at James Street, where he or William II was still, in 1818, on the apprenticeship to him of John Childers, when Pitts was described as silversmith and chaser. Heal records all the above addresses and dates up to 1800. In his production of epergnes and dessert baskets and stands, both alone and with Preedy, William Pitts shows himself specialising in exactly the same work as his father. In the Regency period, he turned to the production of ornate cast candelabra in the neo-rococo style.