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Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, PC (baptised 21 March 1714 – 18 April 1794) was an English lawyer, judge and Whig politician who was first to hold the title of Earl Camden.
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (baptized March 21, 1714, London, England—died April 18, 1794, London) was an English jurist who, as chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas (1761–66), refused to enforce general warrants (naming no particular person to be arrested).
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Charles Pratt. 1st Earl Camden. Charles Pratt was born in 1713 in Kensington, London, son of Sir John Pratt and Elizabeth Wilson. Sir John had been MP for Midhurst, but at the time of Charles’ birth, he was Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, a position he held until 1725.
Sir Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, 1713-1794 Charles Pratt was the third son of Lord Chief Justice Sir John Pratt and Elizabeth Wilson, his second wife. He was only eleven when his father...
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Camden, Charles Pratt, 1st Earl (1714–94). Camden joined Middle Temple and was called to the bar in 1738. At first he found it difficult to obtain a brief but eventually found work and established his reputation. In 1757 he became attorney-general under Pitt and Whig MP for Downton.
Charles Pratt, first Earl Camden (1714-1794) This article was written by James McMullen Rigg and was published in 1896. Camden, the lord chancellor, was the third son of Sir John Pratt by his second wife. Camden was born at Kensington, where he was baptised on 21 March 1714.
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, PC ( baptised 21 March 1714 – 18 April 1794) was an English lawyer, judge and Whig politician who was first to hold the title of Earl Camden.
