CAMDEN, JOHN JEFFREYS PRATT, 2ND EARL and 1ST MARQUESS (1759-1840), only son of the 1st earl, was born on Feb. 11, 1759, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. In the ministry of William Pitt, Pratt, who entered parliament as M.P. for Bath in 1780, was successively a lord of the admiralty and a lord of the treasury; then, having succeeded his father in the earldom in 1794, he was appointed lord-lieutenant of Ireland in 1795. Disliked in Ireland as an opponent of Roman Catholic emancipation, and as the exponent of an unpopular policy, Cam den's term of office was one of commotion and alarm, culminating in the rebellion of 1798. Immediately after the suppression of the rising he resigned, and in 1804 became secretary for war and the colonies under Pitt, and in 18o5 lord president of the council. He was again lord president from 5807-52, after which date he re mained for some time in the cabinet without office. In 1812 he was created earl of Brecknock and Marquess Camden. He died on Oct. 8, 1840.