Ayling, Stanley Edward (1976). The Elder Pitt, Earl of Chatham. New York: D. McKay. m/s. 460. Dicapai 26 December 2018. (scholarly biography)
Black, Jeremy (Aug 1991). "Chatham revisited". History Today. 41 (8): 34–39.
Black, Jeremy. Pitt the Elder. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Brown, Peter Douglas. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: The Great Commoner. George Allen & Unwin, 1978.
Pearce, Edward. Pitt the Elder: Man of War (Random House, 2010).
Peters, Marie. (May 2009). "Pitt, William, first earl of Chatham [Pitt the elder] (1708–1778)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (dalam bahasa Inggeris) (edisi online). Oxford University Press. Dicapai 28 May 2012.
Peters, Marie (1998). Elder Pitt. Longman. m/s. 284. Dicapai 26 December 2018. Short scholarly biography
Ruville, Albert von. William Pitt, earl of Chatham (3 vol. 1907) online older classic recommended by Jeremy Black (1992)
Thomas, Peter D. G. (2003). "'The Great Commoner': The Elder William Pitt as Parliamentarian". Parliamentary History. 22 (2): 145–63.
