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 504 CAMDEN was taken therefrom, but was sold by his son and successor. The Lord Chancellor's father, Chief Justice Pratt, bought in 1705 the Wilderness estate in Scale, Kent, and in 17 14 that of Bayham Abbey, in Sussex, both of which in 1797 devolved, as above mentioned, on the 2nd Earl, ist Marquess, Camden. The Wilderness estate was sold, soon after 1872, for jT 1 50,000 to Sir Charles Henry Mills, Bart., afterwards the ist Baron Hillingdon. Principal Residences. — Bayham Abbey, near Lamberhurst, Sussex, and The Priory, co. Brecknock.(») CAMELFORD BARONY. I. Thomas Pitt, only s. and h. of Thomas P., of, - Boconnoc, Cornwall (who d. 17 July 1761), by Christian, ^1 ^' da. of Sir Thomas Lyttleton, Bart., of Hagley, co. Worcester (which Thomas Pitt last named was br. to William, the celebrated Earl of Chatham), was b. and hap. 3 Mar. 1736/7, at Boconnoc. Fellow Commoner of Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1754, M.A. 1759. M.P.C") for Old Sarum 1761-63, for Okehampton 1768-74, and for Old Sarum again, 1774-83. A Lord of the Admiralty, Apr. 1763-65. On 5 Jan. i784('=) he was cr. LORD CAMELFORD, BARON OF BOCONNOC, Cornwall.('^) F.S.A. 29 Apr. 1784. He m., 29 July 1771, at Knightsbridge, Midx., Anne, da. and coh. of Pinckney Wilkinson, (°) of Burnham, Norfolk, a London merchant. He d. 19 Jan. 1793, at Florence, aged 55. (^ Will pr. Feb. 1793. His widow, who (*) For some remarks on Lord Camden's property as compared with that of holders of upwards of 100,000 acres, see vol. vi, Appendix H. C") He was one of the Whigs who opposed the Coalition of 1783, having been formerly one of the followers of George Grenville. V.G. M Although peerages were conferred on no less than four members of the family of Pitt within the space of 83 years [i 7 19-1802] only two such members can be con- sidered as having obtained them by the influence of the great statesman, the first William Pitt. The peerages so granted were (i) the Barony of Chatham, conferred (1761) on that Statesman's wife, and the Earldom of Chatham, conferred (1766) on himself (man and wife being here reckoned as one person), and (2) the Barony of Camelford, conferred (1784) on his nephew, Thomas Pitt. The others were (3) the Barony (1719) followed by the Earldom (1726) of Londonderry [I.], bestowed on Thomas Pitt, uncle of the future statesman, but conferred during his minority, and (4) the Barony of Rivers and Stratfield Saye (1776), followed (1802) by the Barony of Rivers of Sudley Castle (this last having a spec, rem.), granted to George Pitt, 4th cousin once removed to the said statesman, and 5th cousin to William Pitt, the younger. All of these peerages were extinct in Apr. 1880. In the number of honours acquired by them, the Pitts are rivalled by the families of Agar and Baring. See notes sub Callan and sub Revelstoke. ("*) This creation was on the recommendation of his cousin, the younger Pitt. V.G. (') He was Pitt's colleague as M.P. for Old Sarum, for which place he sat from 1774 till his death in 1784. V.G. (*) "A man of high honour, character, and charm." (Lord Rosebery, 191 0). V.G.