David George Edward Henry Pratt, 6th Marquess Camden (born 13 August 1930) is a British peer. He was a member of the House of Lords from 1983 to 1999.
The son of John Pratt, 5th Marquess Camden, and his wife Marjorie Minna Jenkins, he was educated at Eton College and was commissioned into the Scots Guards. [1]
He was a director of Clive Discount Company between 1958 and 1969. [1]
On 22 March 1983, he succeeded as Marquess Camden (1812), Earl of Camden (1786), Earl of Brecknock (1812), Viscount Bayham of Bayham Abbey (1786), and Baron Camden of Camden Place (1765). [1]
On 20 April 1961, he married Virginia Ann Finlaison, daughter of Francis Harry Hume Finlaison; they were divorced in 1984, having had three children: [1]
In 2003, Camden was living at Wherwell House, Andover, Hampshire. [1]
Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, in the County of Aberdeen, in the County of Meath and in the County of Argyll, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 4 January 1916 for John Hamilton-Gordon, 7th Earl of Aberdeen.
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, PC was an English lawyer, judge and Whig politician who was first to hold the title of Earl Camden. As a lawyer and judge he was a leading proponent of civil liberties, championing the rights of the jury, and limiting the powers of the State in leading cases such as Entick v Carrington.
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.
Marquess of Waterford is a title in the Peerage of Ireland and the premier marquessate in that peerage. It was created in 1789 for the Anglo-Irish politician George Beresford, 2nd Earl of Tyrone. The title is presently held by Henry Beresford, 9th Marquess of Waterford.
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. The Pratt family descends from Sir John Pratt, Lord Chief Justice from 1718 to 1725. His third son from his second marriage, Sir Charles Pratt, was also a prominent lawyer and politician and served as Lord Chancellor between 1766 and 1770. In 1765 he was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain as Baron Camden, of Camden Place in the County of Kent, and in 1786 he was further honoured when he was created Viscount Bayham, of Bayham Abbey in the County of Kent, and Earl Camden. These titles are also in the Peerage of Great Britain. Lord Camden was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Jeffreys, of The Priory, Brecknockshire, in Wales.
Marquess of Londonderry, of the County of Londonderry, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.
Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, was an Anglo-Irish nobleman, a British soldier and a politician. He served in the French Revolutionary Wars, in the suppression of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, and in the Napoleonic wars. He excelled as a cavalry commander in the Peninsular War (1807–1814) under John Moore and Arthur Wellesley.
Sir John Pratt (1657–1725) was an English judge and politician. He was Lord Chief Justice of England from 15 May 1718 until 2 March 1725. He was appointed as an interim Chancellor of the Exchequer on 2 February 1721 until 3 April 1721.
James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton was a British nobleman and politician.
Marjorie Minna Jenkins Pratt, Countess of Brecknock, was a British aristocrat, courtier and socialite.
Lord Michael John Henry Pratt was a scion of the British aristocracy. An eccentric, he is best known as the author of several historical books.
George Charles Pratt, 2nd Marquess Camden, KG was a British peer and Tory politician, styled Viscount Bayham from 1794 to 1812 and Earl of Brecknock in 1812–1840.
John Henry Petty, Earl Wycombe, 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne, was a British Whig politician who in Ireland was suspected of complicity in a republican conspiracy. In 1786, his father, the former British Prime Minister Lord Shelbourne, secured him an English seat in the House of Commons. After witnessing revolutionary events in Paris, he began to establish an independent reputation as a friend of reform, critical of the war with France and of the suppression of democratic agitation at home. In 1797 he repaired to his father's estates in Ireland where his political associations brought him under government surveillance.
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Thomas Wood was an English Tory and later Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1806 to 1847.
Thomas WoodFRS, was a British politician who briefly sat in the House of Commons from 1779 to 1780.
John Charles Pratt, 3rd Marquess Camden DL, styled Viscount Bayham in 1840 and Earl of Brecknock between 1840 and 1866, was a British Liberal politician.
John Charles Pratt, 4th Marquess Camden, briefly styled Earl of Brecknock in 1872, was a British peer.
John Charles Henry Pratt, 5th Marquess Camden was a British peer, soldier, and landowner, a member of the House of Lords from 1943 until his death.
