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  Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714 18 April 1794), Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, was a leading proponent of civil liberties in eighteenth century England.
Born in Kensington in 1714, he was a descendant of an old Devon family of high standing, the third son of Sir John Pratt, Chief Justice of the King's Bench in the reign of George I.
The Earl Camden died in London on 18 April 1794.
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Camden spent some time in travelling in various parts of England collecting materials for his Britannia, a work which was first published in i586.
Camden replied to Brooke in an appendix to the fifth edition of the Brit ann-ia, published in 1600, and his reputation came through the ordeal untarnished.
Camden, who refused a knighthood, was a man of enormous industry, and possessed a modest and friendly disposition.
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Pratt became a close friend of William Pitt while the two were students at Eton and Pitt contributed greatly to Pratt's professional and political advancement.
Camden county in Georgia, Missouri, and Virginia and the city and county of Camden New Jersey are all named in his honor.
The son of the 1st Earl of Camden, Sir John Pratt served as lord lieutenant of Ireland from 1794 - 1798 his repressive policies became a major factor in the outbreak of the 1798 revolution.
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CAMDEN, CHARLES PRATT, 1ST EARL (1714-1794), lord chancellor of England, was born in Kensington in 1714.
He was a descendant of an old Devonshire family of high standing, the third son of Sir John Pratt, chief-justice of the king's bench in the reign of George I. He received his early education at Eton and King's College, Cambridge.
Earl Camden died in London on the 18th of April 1794.
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 JOHN JEFFREYS PRATT, 2ND EARL and 1ST MARQUESS CAMDEN - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN JEFFREYS PRATT, 2ND EARL and 1ST ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
, 2ND EARL and 1ST MARQUESS (1759-1840), only son of the 1st earl, was born on the 11th of February 175c), and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Disliked in Ireland as an opponent of Roman Catholic emancipation and as the exponent of an unpopular policy, Camdens term of office was one of commotion and alarm, culminating in the rebellion of 1798.
Camden was chancellor of the university of Cambridge and a knight of the Garter.
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Camden, industrial city in southwestern New Jersey, seat of Camden County, a port of entry on the Delaware River, opposite Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Camden campus (1927) of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (1927), and a community college are in the city.
Camden was settled in 1681, and platted in 1773; it was incorporated as a city in 1828.
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William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (March 2, 1705 - March 20, 1793), was a British judge and politician who reached high office in the House of Lords.
A friend of the family, Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley, provided the funds for his legal training, and he became a member of Lincoln's Inn on his departure from Oxford, being called to the bar in 1730.
Although holding an office of subordinate rank, he was the chief defender of the government in the House of Commons, and during the time that William Pitt the Elder was in opposition had to bear the brunt of his attacks.
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Pratt, Charles, 1st Earl Camden 1714–94, British jurist.
His lifelong fight against the existing definition of libel culminated in the passage of Fox's Libel Act of 1792 (see press, freedom of the).
Camden's son, John Jeffreys Pratt, 2d Earl and 1st Marquess Camden, 1759–1840, was lord lieutenant of Ireland (1794–98).
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Charles Pratt, an English jurist, was born in London in 1714.
The passage of Fox's Libel Act of 1792 was a direct result of Camden's lifelong battle against the definition of libel.
In 1766 he was appointed Lord Chancellor, but was dismissed in 1770 due to his continued denunciation of the British government's policy towards the American colonists, in particular the policy of colonial taxation without parliamentary representation.
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In January 1762 Pratt was raised to the bench as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas[follow this hyperlink for a summary of this topic], Exception Handler: No article summary found.
Pratt held that the raids were unlawful as they were without authority in statute (An act passed by a legislative body)
The Earl Camden died in London (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center)
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 Camden County, North Carolina: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Camden County is a county (county: A region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government) located in the state (state: The way something is with respect to its main attributes) of North Carolina (North Carolina: A state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies).
It was named for Charles Pratt, 1st Lord Camden (Charles Pratt, 1st Lord Camden: charles pratt, 1st earl camden (1714-18 april 1794), lord chancellor of great...
Camden County is a member of the Albemarle Commission (Albemarle Commission: the albemarle commission is one of the 17 regional north carolina councils of governments...
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Camden, William, (kam´dn) (KEY), 1551-1623, English scholar, chief historian and antiquary of Elizabethan times.
87,492), seat of Camden co., W N.J., a port on the Delaware River opposite Philadelphia, settled 1681, inc. 1828.
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February 11 - 1st session of the United States Senate is open to the public.
March 14 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
June 14 - Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (b.
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Camden is an important horse-training center and a winter resort; manufactures include textiles and cotton products.
During the American Revolution, the British held Camden (1780-1781); they repelled the Americans at the Battle of Camden (August 1780), fought on a site adjacent to the present city, but evacuated the community after suffering heavy losses at nearby Hobkirk Hill in April 1781.
Camden is named for Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, a British jurist who championed colonial rights.
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 John Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John Jeffreys Pratt, 2nd Earl and 1st Marquess Camden (11 February 1759-8 October 1840), only son of the 1st Earl, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.
In 1780 he was chosen member of parliament for Bath and he obtained the lucrative position of teller of the exchequer, an office which he kept until his death, although after 1812 he refused to receive the large income arising from it.
In the ministry of William Pitt, Pratt was successively a lord of the admiralty and a lord of the treasury; then, having succeeded his father in the earldom in 1794, he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1795.
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She married Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, son of Sir Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry and Frances Pratt, on 8 August 1804.
She married Thomas William Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester, son of Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester and Lady Anne Amelia Keppel, on 20 April 1843.
She married Thomas William Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester, son of Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester and Lady Anne Amelia Keppel, on 26 August 1875.
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Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714-18 April 1794), Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, was born in Kensington in 1714.
He was a descendant of an old Devonshire family of high standing, the third son of Sir John Pratt, Chief Justice of the King's Bench in the reign of George I.
Soon after his elevation the nation was thrown into great excitement about the prosecution of John Wilkes, and the question involved in it of the legality of general warrants.
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The second son of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, he was born in London, and was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
In 1770 he was invited by the Duke of Grafton, when Camden was dismissed from the Chancellorship, to take his seat on the woolsack.
Charles Philip Yorke (1764-1834) was later to be prominent in government.
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 CHARLES PRATT, 1ST EARL CAMDEN - LoveToKnow Article on CHARLES PRATT, 1ST EARL CAMDEN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
, 1ST EARL (I 7141794), lord chancellor of England, was born in Kensington in 1714.
Shebbeare (1709 I 788), a violent party writer of the day, for a libel against the government contained in his notorious Letters to the People of England, which were published in the years 1756-1758.
Chief-Justice Pratt pronounced, with decisive and almost passionate energy, against their legality, thus giving voice to the strong feeling of the nation and winning for himself an extraordinary degree of popularity as one of the maintainers of English constitutional liberty.
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 Pratt, Charles, 1st Earl Camden on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
PRATT, CHARLES, 1ST EARL CAMDEN [Pratt, Charles, 1st Earl Camden] 1714-94, British jurist.
Camden's son, John Jeffreys Pratt, 2d Earl and 1st Marquess Camden, 1759-1840, was lord lieutenant of Ireland (1794-98).
He later served as secretary of war (1804-5) and president of the council (1805-6 and 1807-12).
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Camden, John Jeffreys Pratt, 2d Earl and 1st Marquess see under Pratt, Charles, 1st Earl Camden.
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William Talman had built the south and east fronts for the 1st Duke of Devonshire between 1687-96, but in 1696 he was dismissed and the authorship of the west front is uncertain, although it may have been by Sir Thomas Fitch who provided designs in 1702.
At the Restoration in 1660, Charles II promised compensation for his losses, but nothing was given to him and being too proud to plead his cause he died virtually destitute at Englefield Court in March 1674.
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