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CAMDEN — CAMELFORD. 125 [John Francis Ciiarlus Pratt, styled Karl op Brecknock, 2d but 1st surv. s. and h ,(■) 4. and d. 30 Aug. 1S69 ] 4 land S. John Charles (Pratt), Marquess Cam- dun [1812], Earl Camden [1786J. Earl ok Brecknock [1812], Viscount Bayham [1786], and Baron Camden [1765], 3d ami yst. but only aurv. s. and h., b. 9 Feb. 1872 (four months before he sue. to the Peerage) in Eaton sq., Midx. Family estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 7.214 acres in Kent, 3,755 in Sussex ami 0,430 in Brecon. Total 17,399 acres, worth £16,379 a year. This, however, does nut include the very valuable estate of " Camden Town " in St. Paucras, Midx. ; first laid out, in 1791, in Pratt, Jeffreys, Brecknock, and Bayha m streets. " Camden Place," in Chiselhurst, Kent, was purchased in 1609 by Camden, the famous antiquary, who ■d. there in 1023. It was purchased by Lord Chaucellor Pratt, who was cr. a Peer by its name, but sold by his son and successor. The Lord Chancellor's Father, Chief Justice Pratt, bought in 1705 the Wilderness estate in Scale, Kent, and in 1714 that of Bayham Abbey, in Sussex, both of which in 1797 devolved, as above mentioned, to the 2d Earl, 1st Marquess, Camden. The Wilderness estate was sold, soon after 1872, for £150,000 to Sir Charles Henry Mills, Bart., afterwards the 1st Baron llillingdon. Principal Jieside.nccs. — Bayham Abbey, near Lamberhurst, Sussex, and The Priory, Brecon. CAMELFORD. Barony. J, Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc, Cornwall, only s. and h. of Thomas P. of the Bame by Christian, da. of Sir Thomas Lyttleton, I. 1781. Bart., of Hagley, co. Wore, (which Thomas Pitt last named was br. to William, the celebrated Eaul of Chatham), was 6. and bap. 3 March 1730/7, at Boconnoc, sue. his Father 7 June 1760, was one of the Lords of the Admiralty, April 1763 and on 5 Jauy. 1784 was cr. LORD CAMELFORD, BARON OF BOCONNOC, co. Cornwall. He in. 29 July 1771 at Knightsbridge, Midx., Anne, da. and coheir of Pinckney Wilkinson, of Burnham, Norfolk. He <l. 19 Jauy. 1793, at Florence. His widow, who was b. at Ware Park, Herts, 5 Oct. 1738, el. 5 May 1S03, aged 04. at Camelford House, Park lane, Midx. II. 1793, 2. Thomas (Pitt), Lord Camelford, Baroj; of to Boconnoc, only b. and h., b. 19 Feb. 1775, and bap. 20th at Boconnoc, 1804. ed. at Berne, in Switzerland, and afterwards at Charterhouse School, London ; sometime Commander in the Royal Navy. He d. num. at Little Holland House, Kensington, 10 March 1 SO 1. aged 29, from the effects of a duel fought on the 7th (with Capt. Best) when the Peerage became extinct. He was bur. at his own request (from St. Anne's, Soho) in a secluded spot near the lake of St. Lampierre, in the canton of Berne, Switzerland, without " monu- ment or stone.( b ) ( a ) An elder son unbaptized was b. and d. 11 Aug. 186S. ( h ) See an account of him and of his numerous eccentricities in Sir B. Burke's " Romance of the Aristocracy," ed. 1855, vol. ii, pp. 350-359 ; also in the " Annual Register " for 1804. His only sister Anne, b. 10 Sep. 1772, who m. William Wyndham (Orenville), Baron Grenville, d. a„widow and s.p. 13 June 1864, in her 92ud year. Marquessate. ] IV. Earldom. >1S72. Barony. v. J