Originally dealing in whale oil which was widely used for illumination, Charles Pratt ( 1830 – 1891 ) of Massachusetts was an early pioneer of the natural oil industry in the United States.

" He joined with his protégé Henry H. Rogers to form Charles Pratt and Company in 1867.

Caribbean governments have been coming under increased pressure from their electorates to devise ways to override previous rulings by the JCPC such as: Earl Pratt and Ivan Morgan v The Attorney General for Jamaica ( 1993 ) Jeffrey Joseph v The Queen for Barbados ( 2002 ), and Charles Matthews v The State of Trinidad & Tobago ( 2004 ), all of which are Privy Council judgments concerning the death penalty in the Caribbean region.

In the resulting case, Entick v. Carrington ( 1765 ), Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden ruled that the search and seizure was unlawful as the warrant authorized the seizure of all of Entick's papers, not just the criminal ones and the warrant lacked probable cause to even justify the search.

* April 18 – Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain ( b. 1714 )

* Charles Pratt Huntington, architect

Quentin Crisp ( born Denis Charles Pratt, – ), was an English writer and raconteur.

Denis Charles Pratt was born in Sutton, Surrey, the fourth child of solicitor Spencer Charles Pratt ( 1871 – 1931 ) and former governess Frances Marion Pratt ( née Phillips ) ( 1873 – 1960 ); he changed his name to Quentin Crisp in his twenties, after leaving home and cultivating his outlandishly effeminate appearance to a standard that both shocked contemporary Londoners and provoked homophobic attacks.

Shortly later, Rogers met oil pioneer Charles Pratt who purchased the entire output of the tiny Wamsutta Oil Refinery.

In 1867, Rogers joined Pratt in forming Charles Pratt and Company, which was purchased by Standard Oil in 1874.

It was named for Charles Pratt, 1st Lord Camden, who had opposed the Stamp Act.

In about 1760, the house and estate were bought by Charles Pratt, the Attorney General, and later Lord Chancellor.

* 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.

The county was organized January 29, 1841 as Kinderhook County and renamed in 1843 for Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Chancellor of England, and leader of the Whig Party.

Camden Town is named after Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden.

Sir Charles Pratt, a radical 18th century lawyer and politician, acquired the manor through marriage.

The Parish of Camden, named for Charles Pratt, Earl of Camden in England, was then formed from the St. Marys and St. Thomas townships.

* Charles Millard Pratt, oil industrialist and philanthropist

* Charles Pratt

* 1661 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman ( d. 1715 )

During the Civil War, prior to the siege of Raglan Castle in 1645, King Charles I visited Abergavenny and presided in person over the trial of Sir Trefor Williams, 1st Baronet of Llangibby, a Royalist who changed sides, and other Parliamentarians.

On the battlefield, it is probably fair to say, Charles was comparable in skill and style to Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington-quite conservative and yet exceedingly competent.

The establishment of the bank was devised by Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, in 1694, to the plan which had been proposed by William Paterson three years before, but had not been acted upon.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

At the behest of Charles and Buckingham, James assented to the impeachment of the Lord Treasurer, Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, by the House of Commons, who quickly fell in much the same manner as Bacon had.

Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS ( 14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875 ) was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day.

Lyell, Charles, 1st Baronet

* Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, Marshal of the Royal Air Force

The 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment ( 1 < sup > e </ sup > Régiment Étranger Parachutiste, 1 < sup > e </ sup > REP ) was established in 1955 during the Algerian War and disbanded in April 1961 as the entire regiment rose against the French government of Charles de Gaulle ( Algiers Putsch ), in protest against moves to negotiate an end to the Algerian War and providing Algeria's independence from France.

* Nicholl, Charles, " The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street " ( 2007 ) 1st edition ; Chapter 27, " A handfasting ".

* 1660 – Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English statesman ( d. 1718 )

In 1806, he was appointed commander-in-chief of India ( to succeed Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, who had died shortly after arriving in India.

* 1670 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier ( d. 1726 )

* 1515 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich.

Mary's uncle was King Charles II, who ruled the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland ; her maternal grandfather, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, served for a lengthy period as Charles's chief advisor.

* 1726 – Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician ( d. 1813 )

* 1709 – Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England ( b. 1640 )

* December 14 – Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman ( b. 1536 )

* April 16 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman ( d. 1715 )

** Charles Robberts Swart 1st State President of South Africa ( b. 1894 )

** Sir Charles Solomon Henry, 1st Baronet, Australian businessman ( d. 1919 )

* June 17 – Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician ( b. 1726 )