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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    (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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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