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2ND EARL JOHN JEFFREYS PRATT CAMDEN

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2ND

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

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