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 124 CAMDEN. Barony. II. 1794. Earldom. land®. JonN Jeffreys (Pratt), EarlCamdex, &c, onlya and h., 4. 11 Feb v. 1769 In LinooIn's-inn-Fields, and bap. 13 March following; cel. iit'Triii. Coll.. Cambridge; M.A. 1770 ; LL.D. 1S32 ; M.P. for Biilli 17S0-96, being, from 17S6, sti/raZ Viscount Bayham. Iu May 17S0 he became mie of the Tellers of the Exchequer,^ 1 ) having . lii'M the reversion of thai office since Aug. 17GG. Wag a Lord of the marquessate A(lminikv July 1782 ((i Apr y 17S3 _, im , ay. lm Dec _ I783 to 17gg, a I. 1812. Lorf l of the Treasury Aug, 17S9 to May 179-1 ; P.C. 1793 ; Lord Likut. ok Ireland, March 1 79:" to Juno 1798. On 27 April 1797 by the death of his cousin John Pratt, of Hay ham Abbey, Sussex, in his S4th year, he sue. to that estate and to that of the Wilderness in Seals, co. Kent. El. K.G. M Aug. 1799, inv, 29 May 1S01. Sec. of State for the Colonies, May 1804 ; Loud President of the Council, June 1S05 to Feb. 1806, and again March 1807 to April 1812 : Lord Lieut, of Kent, 180S. On 7 Sep. 1S12 he was CT. EARL OF THE COUNTY OF BRECKNOCK, and MARQUESS CAMDEN. Chancellor of the Univ. of Cambridge 1834 ; F.S.A., &c. He in. 31 Dec. 17S5 at Lord Lucan's house, in Charles street (Berkeley sq.) St. Geo. Han. sq. Frances, da. and h. of William Moleswouth, of Wenbury, Devon (2d s. of Sir John M. Bart), by Aime, da. and coheir of James SMYTH of St. Audries, Somerset. She rf. 7 July 1S29. He rf. 8 Oct. 1S40. Barony. III. 1835. Marquessate. "| II. I 1840. Earldom. III. 2 and 3. George Citarles (Pratt), Marquess Camden, Earl Camden, Sc., only s. and h.,6. 2 May 1799 in Arlington street. Midx. ; eel. at Trill. Coll., Cambridge : M.A. 1819 ; LL.D. 1S35 ; M.P. for Ludgershall, 1S21-26, for Bath 1S26-3", and for Dunwich 1S31-32. A Lord of the Admiralty Feb. to Sep. 1828. On 8 Jany. 1S35 he was sum. to the House of Lords in his Father's Barony as LORD CAMDEN. KG. 19 Jany. 184U ; Lord Lieut, of co. Brecknock 1S65. He m. 27 Aug. 1S35 Harriet, da. of George Murray, Bishop of Rochester (grandson of John, 3d Duke or Athole [S.]) by Sarah Maria, da. of Robert Auriol (Hay-Dru.m.mond), Earl OK KlNNOULL [S.] She, who was b. S Feb. 1813, and was sometime a L;uly uf the Bedchamber, (/. 22 Dec. 1S54. He d. 8 Aug. 1S66, aged 67 (being found dead in his bed), at Bayham Abbey. Marquessate. "| 3and4- -Ions Citarles (Pratt), Marquess Ca.m- III. Ii en, EarlCamden, fee,, a andh., h. 30 June 1840 in Bolgrave I square ; ed. at Trin. Coll., Cambridge ; M.A. 1S60 ; M.I*. M866. for Brecon, Feb. to Aug. 1866. He «>. 12 July 1S66, St St. James Westm., Clementina Augusta, yst. da. of George (Spencer Churchill), Duke of Marlborouch, by his second wife Charlotte Augusta, da. of Jeffery (Flower), A^scount Asiibrook [I.] He d. 4 May 1S72, aged 31, at (No. 96) Eaton Square. Midx. His widow, who was 4. 4 May 1 848, m. 29 Dec 1876 at St. Peter's, Eaton Square, Philip Green, sometime Capt. 9th Lancers. She (I. 27 March 1836, at Villa Clementine, Cannes, in France, and was bur. at Bayham. Will pr. 18 Nov. 1886, over .£27,000. Earldom. Barony. IV. acrimony " to whom he appears to have " evidently felt a deep personal animosity." He was also " the main cause of the passage thro' the House of Lords of Mr. Fox's Libel Bill, which for ever settled the question that juries and not judges should decide what was and what was not a libel." See Howard Evans' " Our old Nobility." Lord Camden, accordingly, adopted as his motto, " Judicium Parium aut Lex Teinc." ( a ) Altho' Foss, in his "Judges," speaks of "the patriotic and magnanimous self- denial " with which he gave up this sinecure " to relieve the pecuniary pressure of the country," it appears that, tho' eventually, for £3,683 a year, he did so, it was not till five years after the matter had been brought before the House of Commons (1812) and till the scandal of receiving £23,000 a year (for such was its value in 1807) for no work had made it almost untenable. Cobbett, in Ins "Rural Rides," remarks that, •'according to Parliamentary accounts" the Marquess " has received of public money little short of a million of guineas." See, also, Carpenter's " Peerage for the People."