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Lot Essay
The inscription reads:
ATKINS MAYOR
A Common Council holden in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London. On Wednesday 3.d Nov.r 1819.
RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY That this Court being highly sensible of and duly appreciating the public Spirit and disinterested Conduct of the Most Noble Marquess Camden in making during his life so large a sacrifice of his private Fortune as the giving up to the Services and necessities of his Country in and of the Public Revenue for the exigencies of the State all the Fees Perquisites and Emoluments he might receive in right of his Patent Office of one of the Four Tellers of His Majesty's Exchequer beyond the sum which was enacted to be paid to him, as one of the said Tellers by an act of Parliament made and passed in the 23rd Year of the Reign of His present Majesty intituled "An Act for establishing Regulations in the receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer." do return the NOBLE MARQUESS their warmest Thanks for this munificent and praise-worthy act so truly becoming the PATRIOT and which will hand down to Posterity with grateful recollections the illustrious name of Camden.
RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY That the Freedom of this City be presented in a Box made of Heart of Oak to the MOST NOBLE the MARQUESS CAMDEN by the whole Court in testimony of the high sense they entertain of his great disinterestedness upon this occasion.
T.HARPER - Fleet St. FECIT
WOODTHORPE
After finishing his education at Trinity College, Cambridge, John Jeffreys Pratt (later 1st Marquess Camden) became MP for Bath and obtained the lucrative position of Teller of the Exchequer. While he held this office until his death, he refused to accept the large income arising from it after 1812, the year he was created 1st Marquess Camden. For this "munificent and praise-worthy act" he was awarded the Freedom of the City of London, presented in this magnificent box.
Under the Tory ministry of William Pitt, Camden held numerous offices, including Lord of the Admiralty, Lord of the Treasury, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, an opponent of Catholic Emancipation. In 1804 he became Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, and served as Lord President of the Council from 1807-1812.
PHOTO CAPTION: Lot 46: Vellum document conferring Freedom of the City of London on the 1st Marquess Camden, March 20, 1820, accompanying Camden Gold Box
PHOTO CAPTIO: The 1st Marquess Camden, marble bust by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey Courtesy The National Portrait Gallery
ATKINS MAYOR
A Common Council holden in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London. On Wednesday 3.d Nov.r 1819.
RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY That this Court being highly sensible of and duly appreciating the public Spirit and disinterested Conduct of the Most Noble Marquess Camden in making during his life so large a sacrifice of his private Fortune as the giving up to the Services and necessities of his Country in and of the Public Revenue for the exigencies of the State all the Fees Perquisites and Emoluments he might receive in right of his Patent Office of one of the Four Tellers of His Majesty's Exchequer beyond the sum which was enacted to be paid to him, as one of the said Tellers by an act of Parliament made and passed in the 23rd Year of the Reign of His present Majesty intituled "An Act for establishing Regulations in the receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer." do return the NOBLE MARQUESS their warmest Thanks for this munificent and praise-worthy act so truly becoming the PATRIOT and which will hand down to Posterity with grateful recollections the illustrious name of Camden.
RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY That the Freedom of this City be presented in a Box made of Heart of Oak to the MOST NOBLE the MARQUESS CAMDEN by the whole Court in testimony of the high sense they entertain of his great disinterestedness upon this occasion.
T.HARPER - Fleet St. FECIT
WOODTHORPE
After finishing his education at Trinity College, Cambridge, John Jeffreys Pratt (later 1st Marquess Camden) became MP for Bath and obtained the lucrative position of Teller of the Exchequer. While he held this office until his death, he refused to accept the large income arising from it after 1812, the year he was created 1st Marquess Camden. For this "munificent and praise-worthy act" he was awarded the Freedom of the City of London, presented in this magnificent box.
Under the Tory ministry of William Pitt, Camden held numerous offices, including Lord of the Admiralty, Lord of the Treasury, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, an opponent of Catholic Emancipation. In 1804 he became Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, and served as Lord President of the Council from 1807-1812.
PHOTO CAPTION: Lot 46: Vellum document conferring Freedom of the City of London on the 1st Marquess Camden, March 20, 1820, accompanying Camden Gold Box
PHOTO CAPTIO: The 1st Marquess Camden, marble bust by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey Courtesy The National Portrait Gallery