1835 AD., Great Britain, Bronze Medal on John Jeffreys Pratt, Marquis of Camden.

Great Britain, John Jeffreys Pratt, Marquis of Camden, Chancellor of Cambridge University, installed as chancellor in 1834, Soho Mint, 1835 AD.,
Bronze Medal (44 mm / 41,49 g),
Obv.: JOAN: JEFFREYS MARCH: CAMDEN: NOBILISS: ACAD: CANTAB: CANCELL: / 1835 , bust of the Marquis of Camden, in Chancellor's robes to left.
Rev.: DEUM TIMETO: REGEM HONORATO: / VIRTUTEM COLITO: / DISCIPLINIS BONIS / OPERAM DATO. , detailed view of Senate House in all its architectural splendour, winged figure (Nike / Victory) holding laurel wreath and palm palm branch flying above.
BHM 1685 ; Eimer 1282 ; Taylor 45a ; Brown Vol.1 1685 ; ANS 1976.277.1 .

John Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden KG, PC (11 February 1759 – 8 October 1840), known as Viscount Bayham from 1786 to 1794 and as the Earl Camden from 1794 to 1812, was a British politician. He was lord lieutenant (viceroy) of Ireland from 1795 to 1798, when his repressive actions touched off a major rebellion against British rule.
Marquess Camden is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1812 for the politician John Jeffreys Pratt, 2nd Earl Camden. The Marquess holds the subsidiary titles of Baron Camden, of Camden Place in the County of Kent (1765), Viscount Bayham (1786), Earl Camden (1786) and Earl of Brecknock (1812), all in the Peerage of Great Britain, except the Earldom of Brecknock which is in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The latter title is used as a courtesy title for the Marquess's eldest son and heir apparent.

John Jeffreys Pratt ("Camden") was the only son of Lord Chancellor Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, and Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Jeffreys, of The Priory, Brecknockshire. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.
In 1780 Camden was elected Member of Parliament for Bath and he obtained the lucrative position of teller of the exchequer, an office which he kept until his death, although after 1812 he refused to receive the large income arising from it. He served under William Pitt the Younger as a Lord of the Admiralty and a Lord of the Treasury. In 1794 he succeeded his father in the earldom, and the following year he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Disliked in Ireland as an opponent of Roman Catholic emancipation and as the exponent of an unpopular policy, Camden's term of office was one of commotion and alarm, culminating in the rebellion of 1798.
Immediately after the suppression of the rising he resigned, and in 1804 became Secretary of State for War and the Colonies under Pitt, and in 1805 Lord President of the Council. He was again Lord President from 1807 to 1812, after which date he remained for some time in the cabinet without office. In 1812 he was created Earl of Brecknock and Marquess Camden. Between 1808 and 1840 he also held the honorary post of Lord Lieutenant of Kent.

The Pratt family descends from John Pratt, Lord Chief Justice from 1718 to 1725. His third son from his second marriage, Charles Pratt, was also a prominent lawyer and politician and served as Lord Chancellor between 1766 to 1770. In 1765 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Camden and in 1786 he was further honoured when he was created Viscount Bayham and Earl Camden. His son, the second Earl, was a politician and notably served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and as Lord President of the Council. In 1812 he was created Earl of Brecknock and Marquess Camden. His son, the second Marquess, represented Ludgershall, Bath and Dunwich in the House of Commons and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire. In 1835 Lord Camden was called to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration in his father's junior title of Baron Camden. His son, the third Marquess, briefly sat as a Member of Parliament for Brecon in 1866, before he succeeded his father and took his seat in the House of Lords. On his early death the titles passed to his three-month old son, the fourth Marquess. He was notably Lord Lieutenant of Kent from 1905 to 1943. As of 2006 the peerages are held by his grandson, the sixth Marquess, who succeeded his father in 1983.
The family live at Wherwell House near Andover in Hampshire.

Chancellors of the University of Cambridge
The Chancellor is the titular head of the University, elected for life by the Senate (all graduates holding an M.A. or a higher degree). The earliest known reference to a Chancellor is to Hugh de Hottun, in 1246. At that time, the role was that of an active head, elected from among the resident Heads of the Colleges of the University. According to the original 13th century University Statutes it was the responisibility of the Chancellor to "promptly execute the masters' sentences when they bring them to his notice". From 1535 on, Chancellors were elected from among the magnates of the land who could represent the University's interests at court, and, with one exception were no longer resident in the University.
The Chancellor has the power to call congregations, to admit candidates to degrees and to titles of degrees, and to see that all officers of the University duly perform their offices.