{{short description|Barony in the Peerage of Great Britain}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|Arms of Pitt: ''Sable, a fesse chequy argent and azure between three bezants'' [[File:Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford ('A late unfortunate nobleman').jpg|thumb|upright|1804 portrait of Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford by Robert Dighton Jr.]] '''Baron Camelford''', of Boconnoc, in the County of Cornwall, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=12505 |date=30 December 1783 |page=2}}</ref> It was created, as '''Lord Camelford, Baron of Boconnoc''', on 5 January 1784 for Thomas Pitt, who had previously represented Old Sarum and Okehampton in Parliament. A member of the famous Pitt family, he was the eldest son of Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc; a great-grandson of Thomas Pitt, President of Madras, who purchased Boconnoc House; a great-nephew of Thomas Pitt, 1st Earl of Londonderry; a nephew of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham and first cousin of William Pitt the Younger. Lord Camelford was also the father-in-law of William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville. The title became extinct on the death of his only son, the 2nd Baron, who was killed in a duel in 1804.
==Barons Camelford (1784)== *Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford (1737–1793) *Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford (1775–1804)
==See also== *Earl of Londonderry (1726 creation) *Earl of Chatham
==References== {{Reflist}} *{{Rayment|date=February 2012}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Camelford}} Category:Extinct baronies in the Peerage of Great Britain * Category:Cornish nobility Category:Noble titles created in 1784