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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. 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 ...
14 de abr. de 2024 · 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). As lord chancellor of Great Britain (1766–70), he opposed the ...
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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.
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714-1794), Lord Chancellor. Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter associated with 30 portraits Charles Pratt was a leading proponent of civil liberties in eighteenth-century England. He was trained in the law, and by 1757 had become Attorney General.
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.
In the wilkes cases he declared general warrants contrary to the principles of the constitution and held their issuance by secretaries of state illegal. He also discouraged prosecution of Roman Catholic recusants. As Baron (later Earl) Camden, he made his first speech in the House of Lords in 1765 supporting the American position on the Stamp Act.
