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 on 9 Jan. 1824, on which occasion he was made a Privy Councillor and knighted. In Dec. 1830, he resigned to enable Lord Lyndhurst to take his place as Lord Chief Baron, and retired to his estate at Airdrie, in the county of Lanark. He died in London 29 June, 1842.



Admitted 26 October, 1704.

Fifth son of William Allen, of Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, where he was born about 1684. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he graduated in 1707. After his call to the Bar on 22 June, 1710, he became a Master in Chancery. He was Reader at the Inn in 1745 and Treasurer in 1749. He died 11 April, 1754, and was buried in the Temple Church. He compiled a biographical account of the members of Eton College in five volumes, and also collected materials for a dictionary of English obsolete words.





Admitted 29 July, 1736.

Second son of Humphrey Ambler, of Stubbings, Bisham, Berks. He was called to the Bar 2 July, 1742, and entered at Lincoln's Inn, 1757. He became King's Counsel 6 May, 1761, at the same time as (q.v.), and subsequently Attorney-General to the Queen. Ambler's Reports embrace a period of nearly fifty years (1737—1784), and, as he himself reminds us, give us the decisions of five Chancellors, several Masters of the Rolls, and more than one body of Commissioners. As originally printed in 1790 Ambler's Reports were considered of imperfect authority, but the edition published in 1828 by Mr. Blunt has removed defects. Mr. Ambler died at Maidenhead on 23 Feb. 1794.

AMESBURY, BARON. See.



Admitted 29 June, 1832.

Youngest son of James Amos, of Devonshire Square. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated Fifth Wrangler in 1813. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1818, and migrated to the Middle Temple. He was successively Recorder of Oxford, Nottingham, and Banbury. He sat on various Criminal Law Commissions between 1834 and 1843, and took part in the compilation of their important reports. On the foundation of the London University he became the first Professor of English Law there, with (q.v.) as his colleague in the department of jurisprudence, and his lectures attracted great attention. In 1837 he was made a member of the Council of the Governor-General of India. On his return to England in 1843 he was nominated one of the first of the new County Court Judges, sitting for Marylebone. In 1848 he became Downing Professor at Cambridge, an appointment he held till his death in 1860. He left behind him many books on legal and constitutional and literary subjects, the chief of which are—The Great Oyer of Poisoning: an Account of