John Pratt, 5th Marquess Camden
John Charles Henry Pratt, 5th Marquess Camden (12 April 1899 – 22 March 1983) was a British peer, soldier, and landowner, a member of the House of Lords from 1943 until his death.
Early life
[edit]The son of John Pratt, 4th Marquess Camden, later Lord Lieutenant of Kent, and his wife Lady Joan Marion Nevill, a daughter of Henry Nevill, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny, he was styled as Earl of Brecknock from birth and was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.[1]
Career
[edit]Commissioned into the Scots Guards, he rose to the rank of major and was later appointed as Honorary Colonel of the 516 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery.[1][2]
In civilian life, Brecknock was a director of Darracq Motor Engineering Company, Bayard Cars Ltd, and Pobjoy Aircraft & Airmotors.[1]
On 14 December 1943, Brecknock succeeded as Marquess Camden (1812), Earl of Camden (1786), Earl of Brecknock (1812), Viscount Bayham (1786), and Baron Camden of Camden Place, Chislehurst, Kent (1765).[1]
In 1945 he became a Justice of the Peace and in 1957 a Deputy Lieutenant.[1]
Personal life
[edit]On 19 October 1920, at St Margaret's, Westminster, Lord Brecknock married firstly Marjorie Minna Jenkins, a daughter of Col. Atherton Edward Jenkins. Before their divorce in 1941, they were the parents of two children:
- Lady Mary Clementine (1921–2002)
- David George Edward Henry (born 1930).
On 31 January 1942 he married secondly Averil Streatfeild, daughter of Colonel H. S. J. Streatfeild. Together they were the parents of one son:
- Lord Michael John Henry Pratt (born 1946).
In 1978, as Lord Camden, he married thirdly Cecil Rosemary Pawle, a daughter of Brigadier Hanbury Pawle, former wife of Peter Townsend.[1]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f Burke's Peerage, volume 1 (2003), p. 653
- ^ Peter W. Hammond, ed., The Complete Peerage (Stroud:Sutton Publishing, 1998), p. 137
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