[citation needed] In 1819 he adopted the surname Dean Pitt by Royal Licence.

[citation needed] Major Dean Pitt was stationed at Malta with the 80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers) from January to September 1828.

[7] Dean Pitt arrived with his family on the barque Minerva at Auckland on 8 October 1847.

Ill for some time, he died on 8 January 1851 while Lieutenant-Governor and was buried with full military honours in the Symonds Street Cemetery in Auckland.

[8] He married Susan Baillie at St James' Church, Bristol, England, on 21 May 1818.