Baron Camelford, of Boconnoc, in the County of Cornwall, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created, as Lord Camelford, Baron of Boconnoc...
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Camelford (Cornish: Reskammel) is a town and civil parish in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, situated in the River Camel valley northwest of...
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Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford (19 February 1775 – 10 March 1804) was a Royal Navy officer and peer best known for his participation in the Vancouver...
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Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford (3 March 1737 – 19 January 1793) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1761 until 1784 when he...
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1st Baron Camelford (1737–1793), elder brother of Pitt the Elder Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford (1775–1804), son of the 1st Baron Camelford Turia...
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the father of Thomas Pitt, ancestor of the Earls of Londonderry, Barons Camelford and Earls of Chatham, and of Sir William Pitt, whose grandson George...
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members included the Earls of Chatham, the Earls of Londonderry and the Barons Camelford. The family produced two British Prime Ministers: William Pitt, 1st...
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Earl of Londonderry (redirect from Baron Londonderry)
(1722–1765) (brother) see Marquess of Londonderry Earl of Chatham Baron Camelford George Edward Cokayne Complete Baronetage Volume 1 1900 Leigh Rayment's...
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species. Lord Grenville married Anne, daughter of Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford, in 1792. The marriage was childless and he produced no legitimate...
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York, 1977, ISBN 0-684-15635-0. The Half-Mad Lord: Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford (1775–1804), London, 1978, ISBN 0-224-01664-4 Stalin's Secret War,...
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having been deserted by most of his old patrons: Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford, however, at his death on 10 March 1804, left Belcher his famous bulldog...
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Anne Grenville, Baroness Grenville (category William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville)
between 1806-1807. Anne Pitt was the daughter of Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford and his wife, Anne Wilkinson. Her granduncle was William Pitt the Elder...
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and a sister of George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton. His only surviving son was Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford (1737-1793), of Boconnoc, who developed...
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London from his native Bristol in 1798; Belcher's principal patron was Baron Camelford; the fight between Pearce and Belcher was not fought with gloves as...
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mistress Emma, Lady Hamilton between 1811 and 1813. Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford lived in Bond Street and was unhappy about the presence of the Bond...
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for this period are attributed to his cousin Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford. Camelford's most notable design was the Corinthian Arch. Famed as a highly...
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having won 104 dog fights. Trusty was purchased by Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford and presented to Jem Belcher, a champion prize fighter of England....
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List of political families in the United Kingdom (section Smiths and Abel Smiths (Baron Carrington and Baron Bicester))
Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford, son of Thomas Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford, son of Thomas, 1st Baron William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime...
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Earl of Chatham (redirect from Baron Chatham)
Earl of Chatham (1708–1778) John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham (1756–1835) Earl of Londonderry (1726 creation) Baron Camelford Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages...
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Grenville was married from 1792 to Anne Pitt, daughter of Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford who was a nephew of William Pitt the Elder. Alec Douglas-Home was the...
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London. He became an employee and household member of Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford, a British peer and naval officer. A boxing enthusiast, Pitt may have...
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President Aaron Burr, in Weehawken, New Jersey – 1804 Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford, English peer and naval officer, by his friend Thomas Best near Holland...
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first several months by his college classmate Thomas Pitt, later the Baron Camelford. From March 1761 until he returned to England in June 1763 he had an...
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country house built in the 1780s by Sir John Soane for Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford. The Hall was built on the existing Polstede Hall, which had been built...
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groundbreaking research into venereal disease. His nephew Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford, son of his sister Christian, erected an obelisk to his memory in 1771...
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certain amount of financial assistance from Thomas Pitt (afterwards 1st Baron Camelford) he established the Plymouth China Factory at least as early as 1768...
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1st Marquess, Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford brother of William Pitt the elder, George Nugent-Grenville, 2nd Baron Nugent brother of the 1st Duke and...
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competing claim for pay as expedition astronomer; and Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford, whom Vancouver had disciplined for numerous infractions and eventually...
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was acquitted. 1804: Captain Best fatally wounded Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford. He died three days later. 1804: A duel was fought on Kersal Moor,...
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rear-admiral Archibald Menzies – naturalist and surgeon Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford – sent back to England in disgrace. Robert Barrie – commissioner of...
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