# Baron Camelford

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{{short description|Barony in the Peerage of Great Britain}}
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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](/source/Thomas_Pitt%2C_2nd_Baron_Camelford) by [Robert Dighton Jr.](/source/Robert_Dighton)]]
'''Baron Camelford''', of [Boconnoc](/source/Boconnoc), in the [County of Cornwall](/source/Cornwall), was a title in the [Peerage of Great Britain](/source/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](/source/Thomas_Pitt%2C_1st_Baron_Camelford), who had previously represented [Old Sarum](/source/Old_Sarum_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) and [Okehampton](/source/Okehampton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) in Parliament. A member of the famous Pitt family, he was the eldest son of [Thomas Pitt](/source/Thomas_Pitt_of_Boconnoc) of Boconnoc; a great-grandson of [Thomas Pitt](/source/Thomas_Pitt), President of Madras, who purchased Boconnoc House; a great-nephew of [Thomas Pitt, 1st Earl of Londonderry](/source/Thomas_Pitt%2C_1st_Earl_of_Londonderry); a nephew of [William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham](/source/William_Pitt%2C_1st_Earl_of_Chatham) and first cousin of [William Pitt the Younger](/source/William_Pitt_the_Younger). Lord Camelford was also the father-in-law of [William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville](/source/William_Grenville%2C_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](/source/Thomas_Pitt%2C_1st_Baron_Camelford) (1737–1793)
*[Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford](/source/Thomas_Pitt%2C_2nd_Baron_Camelford) (1775–1804)

==See also==
*[Earl of Londonderry (1726 creation)](/source/Earl_of_Londonderry)
*[Earl of Chatham](/source/Earl_of_Chatham)

==References==
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*{{Rayment|date=February 2012}}

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