John Pratt (judge)

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Sir John Pratt LCJ

Sir John Pratt (1657–1725) was an English judge and politician.

Pratt was Lord Chief Justice of England from May 15, 1718 until March 2, 1725. He was appointed as an interim Chancellor of the Exchequer on February 2, 1721, until April 3, 1721.

Pratt's third son from his second marriage, Charles Pratt, also became a prominent lawyer and politician. He served as Lord Chancellor from 1766 to 1770 and was created Earl Camden in 1786.

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Armory v Delamirie (1722) 1 Strange 505

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Preceded by The Earl of Macclesfield	Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench 1718–1725	Succeeded by Robert Raymond
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Preceded by John Aislabie	Chancellor of the Exchequer 1721	Succeeded by Robert Walpole

v d e Chancellors of the Exchequer

of England	Eustace of Fauconberg Maunsell Leicestre Westminster Giffard de la Leye Willoughby Benstead Sandale Hotham Stanton Harvington Wodehouse Stratford Ashby Ashton Somerset Browne Witham Thwaites Witham Fowler Catesby Lovell Berners Cromwell Baker Sackville Mildmay Fortescue Dunbar Caesar Brooke Portland Barrett Cottington Colepeper Clarendon Shaftesbury Duncombe Ernle Warrington Hampden Halifax Smith Carleton

of Great Britain	Carleton Smith Oxford/Mortimer Bingley Wyndham Onslow Walpole Stanhope Aislabie Pratt Walpole Sandys Pelham Lee Bilson-Legge Lyttelton Bilson-Legge Mansfield Bilson-Legge Barrington le Despencer Grenville Dowdeswell Townshend North Cavendish Pitt Cavendish Pitt Sidmouth Pitt Lansdowne Perceval Bexley

of the United Kingdom	Bexley Goderich Canning Tenterden Herries Goulburn Spencer Denman Peel Monteagle Northbrook Goulburn Halifax Disraeli Gladstone Lewis Disraeli Gladstone Disraeli Hunt Lowe Gladstone Iddesleigh Gladstone Childers Hicks Beach Harcourt R Churchill Goschen Harcourt Hicks Beach Ritchie A Chamberlain Asquith Lloyd George McKenna Bonar Law A Chamberlain Horne Baldwin N Chamberlain Snowden W Churchill Snowden N Chamberlain Simon Wood Waverley Dalton Cripps Gaitskell Butler Macmillan Thorneycroft Amory Lloyd Maudling Callaghan Jenkins Macleod Barber Healey Howe Lawson Major Lamont Clarke Brown Darling Osborne

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Name	Pratt, John
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Date of birth	1657
Place of birth
Date of death	1725
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