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5 unusual facts about Charles Pratt


Boyd v. United States

It is not the breaking of his doors and the rummaging of his drawers that constitutes the essence of the offense; but it is the invasion of his indefeasible right of personal security, personal liberty, and private property, where that right has never been forfeited by his conviction of some public offense, it is the invasion of this sacred right which underlies and constitutes the essence of Lord Camden's judgment.

Charles Pratt

Known as "Pratt Cemetery", behind ornate gates and up a winding drive stands a pink granite Romanesque mausoleum designed by William Tubby, as well as a crypt and a tower connected by a "bridge of sighs".

Pratt, West Virginia

It was renamed Pratt after the owner of the Charles Pratt Coal Company, Charles Pratt.

Richard K. Webel

Webel married Pauline Dodge Pratt (widow of Frederic R. Pratt, a grandson of Charles Pratt) in 1969.

Self Winding Clock Company

Charles Pratt (1830-1891), the founder of Pratt Institute, was also one of SWCC’s original founders and the company started business in his buildings.


Chislehurst

Charles Pratt (1714–1794), Baron Camden from 1765 and 1st Earl Camden from 1786, Attorney General, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Lord Chancellor, lived at Camden Place from c.1760.


see also

Cycling in Syracuse, New York

The League of American Wheelmen was founded in Newport, Rhode Island on May 30, 1880 by Kirk Munroe and Charles Pratt.

Marquess Camden

Camden Town in London is named for Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, and the elephant from the arms of Marquess Camden is therefor present in the crest in the coat of arms of the London Borough of Camden.