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2ND See also: MARQUESS (1759-1840), only son of the 1st See also: earl, was See also: born on the 11th of See also: February 1759, and was educated at Trinity See also: College, Cambridge
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In 178o he was chosen member of parliament for See also: Bath, and he obtained the lucrative position of See also: teller of the
See also: exchequer, an office which he kept until his See also: death, although after 1812 he refused to receive the large income arising from it
.
In the See also: ministry of See also: William Pitt,
See also: Pratt was successively a See also: lord of the See also: admiralty and a lord of the See also: treasury; then, having succeeded his See also: father in the earldom in 1794, he was appointed lord-See also: lieutenant of See also: Ireland in 1795
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Disliked in Ireland as an opponent of See also: Roman Catholic emancipation and as the exponent of an unpopular policy, See also: Camden's See also: term of office was one of commotion and alarm, culminating in the See also: rebellion of 1798
.
Immediately after the suppression of the rising he resigned, and in 1804 became secretary for war and the colonies under Pitt, and in 18o5 lord president of the council
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He was again lord president from 1807 to 1812, after which date he remained for some See also: time in the See also: cabinet without office
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In 1812 he was created earl of Brecknock and Marquess Camden
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He died on the 8th of See also: October 184o, and was succeeded by his only son, See also: George See also: Charles, 2nd marquess (1799-1866)
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The
See also: present marquess is his descendant
.
Camden was chancellor of the university of Cambridge and a knight of the Garter
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