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CAMBRIDGE— CAMDEN. 123 VIT. 1850. 2. H.R.H. George William Frederick Charles, Duke of Camiiridsk, Eakl ov Til'i'Eiunv and Baiion Ciillodex, also Duke of Brunswick Luneburgh, only s. and h. 6. 20 Hatch 1819 at Hanover; became a Col. in the Army, 1S37 : Major-Sen. 1845 ; Gen. (having pieviously been Gen. in the Hanoverian Army) 1856 ; Gen. Commanding in Chief, 1850 : and finally Field- Mnrshal 1S62 ; was Col. of the 17th Light Dragoons, 1842-52 ; Col. of the Scots Fusiliers, 1852-01 ; Col. of the Royal Artillery, 1801 ; Col. of the Grenadier Guards, 1802, &c, Gov. of Woolwich Academy, 1802 ; President thereof, 1S70 ; was in com- mand of the 1st division in the Eastern campaign of 1S54, where he was present at the battles of Alma, Balakluvn, and Inkermnn, and at the siege of Sebastopol. G.C.H., 1825; KG. 15 Aug. 1S3"> ; G.C.M.G. 30 Juno 1S45, becoming, subsequently, Grand Master and Principal Grand Cross of that Order ; KP. 18 Nov. 1851 ; G.C.B. 5 July 1S55 ; and K.T. 17 Sep. 1881 ; also Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour in France, April 1855 ; and Knight of St. Andrew of Russia, 15 May 1874 ; P.O. 1856 ; and P.C. [1.1 186S ; D.C.L. Oxford, 1 Juno 1853 ; LL.D., Cambridge, 3 June 1864 ; and LL.D. Dublin, 21 April 1S0S. Ranger of Hyde Park and St. James' Park, 1852 ; of Richmond Park, 1857 ; personal aide-de-camp to the Queen 1882. CAMDEN and CAMDEN PLACE. Barony. l. Tin; Rt. Hon. Sir Ciiarlus Pratt, Lord Ch. Justico i l -(•;.-. of the Common Pleas, was, on 17 July 1705, er. BARON CAMDEN OF CAMDEN PLACE [in Chislehurst], co. Kent. He was 3d s, of Earldom "' m °f the Wilderness in the parish of Seal, CO. Kent, Lord Ch. Justice of the King's Bench [1717-25] by his 2d wife Eliza- 1. 17NG. beth, da, of the Rev. Hugh Wilson, Canon of Bangor. He was b. at Kensington, and Imp. there 21 March 1714 ; ed. at Eton (where he contracted a life-long friendship with the elder Pitt) and at King's Coll., Cambridge ; B.A. 1730 ; M.A. 1740 ; Barrister (Middle Temple) 1738 ; King's Counsel and Attorney-Gen. to the Prince of Wales, 1753 ; Attorney-Gen. (without having previously been Sol.-Gen.) July 1757 : M.P. for Downton, 1757-02 ; Recorder of Bath, 1759 ; Knighted, 28 Dec. 1761 ; Ch. Justice of the Common Pleas and P.C, 1702; being in 176 ) raised to the Peerage as above. Loud Chancellor, July 1766 to Jany. 1770,( :l ) LORD PRESIDENT 01 THE CorNciL, March 1782 to March 1783 and again Dec. 1784 till his death, ten years later. Ou 13 May 1780 Baron Camden was cr. VISCOUNT BAYHAM 01" BAYHAM ABBEY, co. Sussex, and EARL CAMDEN( b ). He m. 4 Oct. 1749 by spec. lie. at Ely Chapel, St. Andrew's, Holboru, Elizabeth, da. and eventually sole h. of Nicholas JEFFREYS of the Priory, co. Brecknock, who was s. and h. of Sir Geoffrey Jeffreys of the same. She d. 10 Dec. 1779. He d. 18 April 1794 in his 80th year. Both were bur. at Seale.( c ) ( a ) " He was justly blamed for continuing so long in a cabinet whose counsels were opposed to the sentiments he entertained " (see " Foss "), for he appears to have held on to office no less than two years after the resignation (in 176S) of his patron, Lord Chatham from the Premiership, it not being till Jany. 1770, when, after having with great warmth opposed the address, the Great Seal was (not unnaturally) taken from him. On this occurring, " Every ellort was used to embarrass the Government and render it impossible to find a successor ; and poor Charles Yorke fell a sacrifice to it ; for the Seals being pressed on him, ho found himself so surrounded by difficulties as in it fit of despondence to destroy himself. Charles Yorke was a national loss ; he was a man of far superior talents and accomplishments to Lord Camden." See Sir Egerton Brydges " Jiioyraphical Peerage," 1808-17. CO See ante, p. 10£, note "a," (under " Cadouan ") for some remarks on the omission of the word " of" in titles of Earldoms or Marquessates. ( c ) lie was thro' life a consistent Liberal. When presiding at the Common Pleas, he decided against the legality of " General Warrants," discharging the notorious John Wilkes, who had been thus arrested. When ill the Cabinet he was, writes Foss, "in the foremost rank of opposition to the Ministry of Lord North, uniting with the Earl of Chatham in the arraignment of the American war, and, as well in that question as in all others, assailing Lord Mauslield with uniform and somewhat undignified i