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John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden, KG, PC, FSA (11 February 1759 – 8 October 1840), styled Viscount Bayham from 1786 to 1794 and known as the 2nd Earl Camden from 1794 to 1812, was a British politician.
John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden (born Feb. 11, 1759, near Chislehurst, Kent, Eng.—died Oct. 8, 1840, near Sevenoaks, Kent) was the lord lieutenant (viceroy) of Ireland from 1795 to 1798, when his repressive actions touched off a major rebellion against British rule.
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External links. Marquess Camden. Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, by Nathaniel Dance-Holland. Marquess Camden is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1812 for the politician John Pratt, 2nd Earl Camden. [1] . The Pratt family descends from Sir John Pratt, Lord Chief Justice from 1718 to 1725.
Camden, John Jeffreys Pratt, 2nd Earl and 1st Marquis (1759–1840). Statesman. Son of the famous lawyer, Pratt came into Parliament in 1780 and succeeded to the earldom in 1794. After a number of minor offices, he followed Fitzwilliam in 1795 as lord-lieutenant of Ireland, holding the post until 1798.
John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden,, styled Viscount Bayham from 1786 to 1794 and known as the 2nd Earl Camden from 1794 to 1812, was a British politician. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the revolutionary years 1795 to 1798 and as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies between 1804 and 1805.
John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden. Regency Portraits Catalogue Entry. John Jeffreys Pratt was a Tory statesman. Unpopular as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, his uncompromising opposition to Catholic emancipation helped lead to the Irish rebellion of 1798. He was Secretary for War from 1804 to 1806.
first Marquess Camden (1759-1840), politician, was baptized John Jeffreys Pratt, son of the first Earl Camden (1714-1794), a distinguished lawyer and politician. At Cambridge (M.A., 1779) he became a close friend of William Pitt in Trinity College.
