Thomas Pitt, second baron Camelford

(1775-1804)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Pitt, Thomas, 2d Baron Camelford, 1775-1804 NRA: Pitt Thomas (1775-1804) 2nd Baron Camelford DNB: Pitt, Thomas, second Baron Camelford (1775–1804), naval officer and rake LBT ID: LdCamel2 VIAF ID: 16042375 LOC ID: n79028818	B/BAP: 1775-02-19 DIED: 1804-03-07
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The son of the first baron (d. 1793); a former navel officer, he was a French sympathiser and political friend of London radicals whose history of violent behavior terminated when he was killed in a duel with his friend Thomas Best.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Pitt, second baron Camelford: Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. III: 1805 Found 1: ¶ 51