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  John Jeffreys Pratt, 2nd earl and 1st marquess Camden - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
JOHN JEFFREYS PRATT CAMDEN, 2ND Earl and 1ST Marquess (1759-1840), only son of the rst earl, was born on the r r th of February 1759, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.
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 lordlieutenant of Ireland in 1795.
Camden was chancellor of the university of Cambridge and a knight of the Garter.
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 Charles Pratt Camden - LoveToKnow 1911
CHARLES PRATT CAMDEN, 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.
As a proof of Pratt's moderation in a period of passionate party warfare and frequent state trials, it is noted that this was the only official prosecution for libel which he set on foot.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/John Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden
John Jeffreys Pratt, 2nd Earl and 1st Marquess Camden, KG, PC (11 February 1759 8 October 1840), British politician, was the only son of the 1st Earl.
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.
Disliked in Ireland as an opponent of Roman Catholic emancipation and as the exponent of an unpopular policy, Camden's term of office was one of commotion and alarm, culminating in the rebellion of 1798.
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 The Pratt Name
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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 PRATT, CHARLES, 1ST EARL CAMDEN. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Carrington (1763), where he pronounced against the legality of the general warrant under which John Wilkes was prosecuted.
He served as president of the council under the marquess of Rockingham (1782–83) and under William Pitt (1784–94).
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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 Bonvilston - Brecknockshire | British History Online
David John in 1776 £10, for the use of the poor, making together the sum of £160; to which £3 per annum have been subsequently added, arising out of two deed polls, purchased with ten years' arrears of Grace Aubrey's donation, as stated in an inscription on a tablet in the church.
The estate was subsequently purchased from one of his descendants by Sir John Jeffreys, whose grand-daughter conveyed it by marriage to John Pratt, Esq., of the Wilderness, in the county of Kent, whose only son, dying without issue, bequeathed it to the father of its present noble owner, Marquess Camden.
John David Rhys, author of Lingua Cymraeæ Institutiones, or "Institutes of the Welsh or Cymraeg Language," resided near the town during the latter part of his life, in a cottage called Clynhîr, situated under the Brecknock Beacon, and near the small lake LYn Cwm Llwch.
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 Marquess Camden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marquess Camden is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
The Marquess holds the subsidiary titles of Baron Camden, of Camden Place in the County of Kent (1765), Viscount Bayham (1786), Earl Camden (1786) and Earl of Brecknock (1812), all in the Peerage of Great Britain, except the Earldom of Brecknock which is in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
The Pratt family descends from John Pratt, Lord Chief Justice from 1718 to 1725.
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 List of the Knights of the Garter
472 (inv 1672) John (Maitland) Duke of Lauderdale.
541 (inv 1722) John (Ker), 1st Duke of Roxburghe.
803 (inv 1894) Gavin (Campbell), 1st Marquess of Breadalbane.
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 Stall-Plates of the Knights of the Garter
1894 (803) Gavin (Campbell), 1st Marquess of Breadalbane.
1722 (541) John (Ker), 1st Duke of Roxburghe.
Daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, K.G. Married 1st John (Holland), Duke of Exeter, K.G.; 2ndly John (Cornwall), Lord Fanhope, K.G. 1378 Philippa, Countess of Oxford.
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 A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland by Samuel Lewis
Mount Carteret is the property of John Priaulx Armstrong Esq.; the glebe-house, the residence of the Rev. John Burdett; and Claremount, of the late Henry Goode, Esq.
It is a curacy, in the diocese of Armagh, forming part of the union of Baronstown: the rectory is impropriate in John Pratt, Esq., to whom the tithes, amounting to £248.
Sir John Perrot, Lord-Deputy, compelled the native chiefs, in 1584, to resign their territories into the hands of the crown, to execute indentures of submission, and to receive re-grants, whereby their estates were to descend in future according to the rules of the common law of England.
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 List of famous Old Etonians born in the 18th century
William Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton of Frankley (1724–1808), Governor of South Carolina, 1756–1760, and Jamaica, 1762–1766, and Ambassador to Portugal, 1766–1771
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852), Commander, Mysore, 1799–1802, the Deccan, 1803–1805, and the Iberian Peninsula, 1808–1814, Master-General of the Ordnance, 1818–1827, Commander-in-Chief, 1827–1828, 1842–1852, and Prime Minister, 1828–1830, 1834
John Bird Sumner (1780–1862), Bishop of Chester, 1828–1848, and Archbishop of Canterbury, 1848–1862
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 thePeerage.com - nil and others
Sir Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden was born in 1713 in Kensington, London, England.
Sir Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden was educated in Eton College, Eton, Berkshire, England.
Sir Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, son of Sir John Pratt and Elizabeth Wilson, on 4 October 1749 in Ely Chapel, St. Andrew's, Holborn, London, England.
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 Lord President of the Council
Thomas Osborne, 1st Marquess of Carmarthen[?], 1st Duke of Leeds (1694) 1689-1699
George Robinson, 2nd Earl of Ripon[?], 1st Marquess of Ripon (1871) 1868-1873
John Morley[?], 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn 1910-1914
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CAMDEN, JOHN JEFFREYS PRATT, 2ND EARL and 1ST MARQUESS (1759-1840), only son of the 1st earl, was born on the 11th of February 1759, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.
In 178o 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.
Immediately after the suppression of the rising he resigned, and in 1804 became secretary for war and the colonies under Pitt, and in 18o5 lord president of the council.
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 NPG 5241; John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess of Camden
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John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess of Camden (1759-1840), Statesman.
Camden was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1795 after the recall of the Catholic-friendly Lord Fitzwilliam.
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 Campbell: Lives of the Lord Chancellors: Camden, Ch. 143
Pratt, while a common law Judge, certainly was of signal service to his country.
With the exception of opposing the Declaratory Act, Lord Camden gave the Rockingham administration his cordial support; and he was free from the imputation to which Mr.
The Great Seal was offered to Lord Camden, and, without hesitation, he accepted it, — stipulating only (as he reasonably might), that on giving up a lucrative situation, which he held during good behaviour, he should have a retired allowance of 1500£.
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 Multitext - "The Theatre Royal Incident, 1822"
Camden had served as Lord Lieutenant in Ireland in 1795, was disliked as an opponent of Emancipation.
Camden mocks the Lord Lieutenant for his over-reaction to the Orange demonstration in the Theatre Royal.
Camden seems to be referring to his own period in office when he writes ‘before the Union’.
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 Knights of the Garter, 1694-present
(inv 1719) Evelyn (Pierrepont), 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull.
(inv 1722) John (Ker), 1st Duke of Roxburghe.
(inv 1894) Gavin (Campbell), 1st Marquess of Breadalbane.
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 thePeerage.com - Major Adrian Henry Hope and others
She was the daughter of Charles Moore, 1st Marquess of Drogheda and Lady Anne Seymour-Conway.
Sir John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden was born on 11 February 1759 in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England.
Sir Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden and Elizabeth Jeffreys, on 31 December 1785 in Lord Lucan's House, Charles Street, Berkeley Square, St. George Hanover Square, London, England.
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 OSBORN 19TH CENTURY BOUND MANUSCRIPTS
Describes his long friendship with John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) and its termination (17p.), the exhumation and cremation of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) (2p.), and relates an anecdote of William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) (2p.).
Describes the career of John Francis Rigaud (1742-1810) in detail; discussion of painting techniques, and frequent mention of the Royal Academy; accompanied by seven related pieces concerning the Rigaud and Dutilh families.
Preface is dated 1832 Aug 12 and the poems are dated 1825-1832; the author explains in his preface that most of his poems were written for the literary society of the Society of Friends to which he belonged; several are addressed to George Herron.
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 Pratt Coat of Arms
Various branches of the Pratt family have lived, loved, fought and died under a variety of banners in several nations.
Arms in England, where our branch of the Pratt family originated, are assigned only to individuals according to royal decree and can only be passed from one generation to the next, father to first born son or by successful application to the Chief Herald.
Sir Charles Pratt (1714-1794), the 1st Baron and 1st Earl of Camden, and his son Sir John Jeffreys Pratt, (1759-1840), the 2nd Earl and 1st Marquess Camden had a coat of arms.
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 Lord President of the Council
Thomas Osborne, 1st Marquess of Carmarthen, 1st Duke of Leeds (1694) 1689-1699
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby 1711-1714
Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset 1745-1751
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 Donald Hyde and Mary Hyde Eccles Autograph Collection: Guide.
(318) Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794.
(319) Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794.
(John) Nourse from 1751 to 1752, concluding with a receipt from John and Paul Knapton to Nourse.
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 John Jeffreys Pratt, 2d Earl and 1st Marquess Camden - HighBeam Encyclopedia
John Jeffreys Pratt, 2d Earl and 1st Marquess Camden - HighBeam Encyclopedia
John Jeffreys Pratt, 2d Earl and 1st Marquess Camden
Camden, John Jeffreys Pratt, 2d Earl and 1st Marquess see under Pratt, Charles, 1st Earl Camden.
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 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
The title of Marquess Camden was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1812 for John Jeffreys Pratt, 2nd Earl Camden.
The Marquess at present holds the subsidiary titles of Earl Camden (1786), Earl of Brecknock (1812), Viscount Bayham (1786), and Baron Camden (1765), all but the Earldom of Brecknock in the Peerage of Great Britain.
John Jeffreys Pratt, 2nd Earl Camden (1759-1840) (became Marquess Camden in 1812)
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 The British Peerage in 1818
The marquessate of Antrim was re-created by King George III on 18.08.1789 in the peerage of Ireland.
The marquessate of Clanricarde was re-created in the peerage of Ireland by King George III on 17.08.1789 for Henry de Burgh, 12
In 1818, there were 32 marquessates: 1 in the peerage of England, 3 in the peerage of Scotland, 19 in the peerage of Great Britain and Ireland and 9 in the peerage of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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 Britain.tv Wikipedia - 1794
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 Britannicaindia.com: Britannica Browse
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Camden, Charles Pratt, 1st Earl, Viscount Bayham Of Bayham Abbey, Baron Camden Of Camden Place
Camden, John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess, 2nd Earl Camden, Earl Of The County Of Brecknock, Viscount Bayham Of Bayham Abbey, Baron Camden Of Camden Place
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 ブリタニカ・ジャパン - Encyclopædia Britannica A-Z Browse
Camden was created a borough in 1965 by the...
It changed its name in 1768 to honour Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, a British supporter of the colonial...
The locality, originally known as Cowpastures, was renamed Camden Park in 1805, after the 2nd earl Camden, secretary of state for the colonies at that time, by John Macarthur, who bred merino...
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