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- BIOGRAPHY
He was educated at Eton where he formed a life-long friendship with the elder Pitt. Later he went to King's College, Cambridge. In 1755 he became King's Counsel and then Attorney General to the Prince of Wales 1756-1757; Whig M.P. for Downtown 1757-1761; Recorder of Bath 1759; and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1761-1766.
He was knighted 28 December 1761 and on 17 July 1765 created Baron Camden of Camden Place. From July 1766 until January 1770 he was Lord Chancellor and Lord President of the Council March 1782 to March 1783 and again December 1784 till his death. On 13 May 1786 he was created Viscount Bayham of Bayham Abbey and Earl Camden.
In 1749 he had married Elizabeth Jeffreys who died in 1779 while he died 18 April 1794 aged eighty. Walpole described him in 1766 as: 'Steady, warm, sullen, stained with no reproach, and a uniform Whig. His sentiments are republican in politics, deistical in religion, and if he inherits one half of his father's pride, such principles, with his abilities, may do mischief in so high a station.'
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