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CAMDEN 503 MARQUESSATE. III. EARLDOM. BARONY. IV. yi866. 3 and 4. John Charles (Pratt), Mar- quess Camden, Earl Camden, &'c., s. and h., l>. 30 June 1840, in Belgrave Sq. ; ed. at Trin. Coll. Cambridge; M.A. i860; M.P. (Liberal) for Brecon Boroughs, Feb. to Aug. 1866. Hem., 12 July 1866, at St. James's, Westm., Clementina Augusta, yst. da. of George (Spencer-Churchill), Duke of Marlborough, by his 2nd wife, Charlotte Augusta,da. of Henry JefFery (Flower), Vis- count AsHBROOK [L]. He d. 4 May 1872, aged 31, at 96 Eaton Sq., Midx. Will pr. 14 June 1872, under ;^ 160,000. His widow, who was h. 4 May 1848, ;«., 29 Dec. 1876, at St. Peter's, Eaton Sq., Philip Green, sometime Capt. 9th Lancers. She ^.27 Mar. 1886, at Villa Clementine, Cannes, in France, and was Ipur. at Bayham. Will pr. 18 Nov. 1886, over ^{^27,000. Capt. Green d. at 30 Upper Berkeley Str., 18, and was i>ur. 21 Nov. 1904, at Fordcombe. [John Francis Charles Pratt, siykdEARh of Brecknock, 2nd but ist surv. s. and h. ap.,(^) i>. and d. 30 Aug. 1869.] MARQUESSATE IV. EARLDOM. BARONY. V. V1872. 4 and 5. John Charles (Pratt), Mar- quess Camden [18 1 2], Earl Camden [1786], Earl of Brecknock [i 8 i 2], Viscount Bay- ham [1786], and Baron Camden [1765], 3rd and yst., but only surv. s. and h., l>. 9 Feb. 1872 (four months before he sue. to the Peerage), In Eaton Sq., Midx. Lord Lieut, of Kent 1905. A Conservative. He m., 2 June 1898, at St. Alban's, Frant, Sussex, Joan Marion, da. of Lord Henry Nevill (2nd s. of William, ist Marquess OF Abergavenny), by Violet, istda. of Col. H. D.Streatfeild, ofChidding- stone Castle, Kent. She was l/. 16 July 1877. [John Charles Henry Pratt, styled Earl of Brecknock, only s. and h. ap., ^. 12 Apr. 1899.] Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 7,214 acres in Kent, 3,755 in Sussex and 6,430 in co. Brecknock. Total 17,399 acres, worth ;^i 6,3 79 a year. This, however, does not include the very valuable estate of Camden Town, in St. Pancras, Midx., first laid out in 1791, as Pratt, Jeffrey, Brecknock, and Bayham streets. "Camden Place," in Chislehurst, Kent, was purchased in 1609 by Camden, the famous antiquary, who d. there in 1623. It was purchased by Lord Chancellor Pratt, whose peerage title (*) An elder s., unbaptized, was h. and d. i Aug. x868.