Harriet Pitt (12 October 1748[1] – 10 December 1814) was a British actress and dancer.
[2] George Cecil Pitt became a musician and was the father of the dramatist George Dibdin Pitt, who as a young man took Dibdin as his middle name in honour of his uncles, Harriet's later sons.
[4][5] Harriet gave birth to Charles in Russell Court, Covent Garden, he was named after his father's librettist Isaac Bickerstaffe and their character Mungo in an afterpiece entitled The Padlock.
[2] Harriet entrusted the upbringing of her children to her uncle, Cecil Pitt,[8] and he sent both boys away to a boarding school at Barnard Castle.
[9] Harriet appeared at the Drury Lane Theatre in the 1770s as she started to use the name "Mrs Davenett".