Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden NPG D1197

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Gottfried Haid, after Sir Joshua Reynolds

Charles Pratt was a leading proponent of civil liberties in eighteenth-century England. He was trained in the law, and by 1757 had become Attorney General. He entered Parliament as an MP the following year, but resigned in 1762 when he was made Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas. In 1763, Pratt was involved in the case of John Wilkes, who was prosecuted for libel. The case raised the question of the legality of general warrants for the search of houses, and Pratt became hugely... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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