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 502 CAMDEN BARONY. III. 1835. MARQUESSATE II. EARLDOM. III. 1840. July 1805 to Feb. 1806, and again Mar. 180710 Apr. i8i2;(^) Elder Br. of the Trin. House 1805 till his death, and Master thereof 1809-16, 1828-29, and 1831-37. Lord Lieut, of Kent, 1808 till his death. On 7 Sep. 18 12 he was cr. EARL OF THE COUNTY OF BRECKNOCK and MARQUESS CAMDEN. Trustee of the Brit. Museum 1826 till his death; Chancellor of the Univ. of Cambridge 1834 till his death. He m., 31 Dec. 1785 (spec, lie), at Lord Lucan's house, in Charles Str., Berkeley Sq., in the parish of St. Geo., Han. Sq., Frances, da. and h. of William Moles- worth, of Wenbury, Devon (2nd s. of Sir John M., Bart.), by Anne Elizabeth, da. and coh. of James Smith, of Canons Leigh, Devon, and of St. Audries, Somerset. She, who was b. before 27 Feb. 1766, d. 7 July 1829, at Bayham Abbey. He d. 8 Oct. 1840, at the Wilderness afsd., aged 81. Will pr. Oct. 1840, under ;^40,ooo.('') 2 and 3. George Charles (Pratt), Marquess Camden, Earl Camden, &fc., only s. and h., b. 2 May 1799, in Arlington Str., Midx. ; ed. at Eton, and at Trin. Coll. Cambridge; M.A. i8i9;LL.D. 1835; M.P. (Tory) for Ludgershall, 1821-26, for Bath i826-30,andforDunwichi83i-32.('=) Mem- ber of the Council of the Lord High Adm. Feb. to Aug. 1828. A Lord of the Admiralty 1828-29. O" ^ J^"- ^^?)S he was sum. to the House of Lords, v.p., in his father's Barony, K.G. 19 Jan. 1846; Pres. of the Royal Archaeol. Inst. 1864, Lord Lieut, of co. Brecknock 1865, Pres. of the Camden Soc. 1865, all till his death. He m., 27 Aug. 1835, at Bromley Palace, Kent, Harriet, ist da. of George Murray, Bishop of Rochester (grandson of John, 3rd Duke of Atholl [S.]), by Sarah Maria, da. of Robert Auriol (Hay-Drummond), Earl of Kinnoull [S.]. She, who was b. 6 Feb. 18 13, and was sometime a Lady of the Bedchamber, d. 22 Dec. 1854, at the Wilderness afsd. He d. of heart disease (being found dead in his bed), at Bayham Abbey, 6, and was bur. 13 Aug. 1866, at Scale, aged 67. Will pr. 16 Nov. 1866, under ^loofioo, resworn Jan. 1868, as under ^^ 160,000. (^) See ante, page 500, note "b," circa finem. C") "A plain, unaffected, good humoured man, of pleasing conversation and con- ciliatory address, and though in understanding he be not exactly his father's son, or his sister's brother, yet he does not seem to be in any way deficient." (Letter of the Earl of Charlemont, 26 July 1795). Lecky writes of him, when Lord Lieut, of Ireland, as "honest and humane, but weak, incapable, bewildered and utterly desponding." {History of the 18th Cent., ol. vii, p. 450). Certainly his position was one to tax the highest ability. V.G. ("^) In the Lords he was a Conservative, but followed Peel in his tergiversation on the Corn Laws, and later supported the Liberals. V.G. {^) For a list of such summonses see vol. i, Appendix G. He was a keen archaeologist. as LORD CAMDEN.('')