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Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, PC (baptised 21 March 1714 – 18 April 1794) was an English lawyer, judge and Whig politician who was first to hold the title of Earl Camden.
14 de abr. de 2024 · Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden was an English jurist who, as chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas (1761–66), refused to enforce general warrants (naming no particular person to be arrested). As lord chancellor of Great Britain (1766–70), he opposed the government’s North American colonial.
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He was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland between March 1795 and June 1798 and Secretary of State for the Colonies and Secretary of State for War between 1804 and 1805. He later held the office of Lord President of the Council until April 1812.
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, PC ( baptised 21 March 1714 – 18 April 1794) was an English lawyer, judge and Whig politician who was first to hold the title of Earl Camden.
Camden, Charles Pratt, 1st Earl (1714–94). Camden joined Middle Temple and was called to the bar in 1738. At first he found it difficult to obtain a brief but eventually found work and established his reputation. In 1757 he became attorney-general under Pitt and Whig MP for Downton.
Lord Chancellor Charles Pratt was a leading proponent of civil liberties in eighteenth-century England. He was trained in the law, and by 1757 had become Attorney General. He entered Parliament as an MP the following year, but resigned in 1762 when he was made Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas.
Charles Pratt, first Earl Camden (1714-1794) This article was written by James McMullen Rigg and was published in 1896. Camden, the lord chancellor, was the third son of Sir John Pratt by his second wife. Camden was born at Kensington, where he was baptised on 21 March 1714.
