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David Pratt, 6th Marquess Camden

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David George Edward Henry Pratt, 6th Marquess Camden (born 13 August 1930) is a British peer. He was a member of the House of Lords from 1983 to 1999.

Early life

The son of John Pratt, 5th Marquess Camden, and his wife Marjorie Minna Jenkins, he was educated at Eton College and was commissioned into the Scots Guards.

Career

He was a director of Clive Discount Company between 1958 and 1969.

On 22 March 1983, he succeeded as Marquess Camden (1812), Earl of Camden (1786), Earl of Brecknock (1812), Viscount Bayham of Bayham Abbey (1786), and Baron Camden of Camden Place (1765).

Personal life

On 20 April 1961, he married Virginia Ann Finlaison, daughter of Francis Harry Hume Finlaison; they were divorced in 1984, having had three children:

  • Lady Samantha Caroline Pratt (born 1964)
  • James William John Pratt, Earl of Brecknock (born 1965)
  • Jonathan Bruce Charles Pratt (born 1970, died 1976)

In 2003, Camden was living at Wherwell House, Andover, Hampshire.

Notes

  1. ^ Burke's Peerage, volume 1, 2003, p. 652
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1983–
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