John Pratt, 4th Marquess Camden

The Most Honourable
The Marquess Camden
GCVO TD JP DL
The Most Honourable The Marquess Camden GCVO TD JP DL
Lord-Lieutenant of Kent
	In office; 5 June 1905 – 15 December 1943
Monarchs	Edward VII ; George V ; Edward VIII ; George VI
Preceded by	The Earl Stanhope
Succeeded by	The Lord Cornwallis
Personal details
Born	9 February 1872; Eaton Square, London, England
Died	15 December 1943 (aged 71)
Spouse	Lady Joan Neville (m. 1877)
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge

John Charles Pratt, 4th Marquess Camden GCVO TD JP DL (9 February 1872 – 15 December 1943), briefly styled Earl of Brecknock in 1872, was a British peer.

Background and education

Camden was born at Eaton Square, London, the third but only surviving son of John Pratt, 3rd Marquess Camden, by Lady Clementina Augusta, daughter of George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough. He was a first cousin of Lord Randolph Churchill on his mother's side. He succeeded to the marquessate at the age of two months on the early death of his father, and was subsequently educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.^[1]

He owned 17,000 acres in Kent, Brecon and Sussex. ^[2]

Career

In 1905 Camden was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Kent,^[3] a position he held until his death.^[4] He fought in the First World War as a Major in the West Kent Yeomanry Cavalry, where he was awarded the Territorial Decoration.^[1] He was also a deputy lieutenant of Sussex between 1894^[5] and 1922^[6] as well as a justice of the peace for the county. He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1933. From 1942 to 1943 he was commodore of the prestigious Royal Yacht Squadron.^[1]

Family

Lord Camden married Lady Joan Marion, daughter of Henry Nevill, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny, in 1898. They had two sons and two daughters. He died in December 1943, aged 71, and was succeeded in the marquessate by his eldest son, John. The Marchioness Camden died in July 1952, aged 74.^[1]

His daughter Lady Fiona Pratt married firstly Sir Gerard Fuller, 2nd Baronet and secondly the Earl of Normanton, becoming the mother of the third Baronet and of Shaun Agar, 6th Earl of Normanton.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d thepeerage.com Sir John Charles Pratt, 4th Marquess Camden
^ The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland
^ "No. 27801". The London Gazette. 6 June 1905. p. 4030.
^ "No. 36688". The London Gazette. 5 September 1944. p. 4129.
^ "No. 26570". The London Gazette. 13 November 1894. p. 6359.
^ "No. 32684". The London Gazette. 28 April 1922. p. 3342.
^ Burke's Peerage, volume 2 (2003), p. 2923

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Marquess Camden

Honorary titles
Preceded by The Earl Stanhope	Lord-Lieutenant of Kent 1905–1943	Succeeded by The Lord Cornwallis
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Charles Pratt	Marquess Camden 1872–1943	Succeeded by John Charles Henry Pratt