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 of Bengal. In 1797 he was chosen President of the Asiatic Society, and after twenty-five years of eminent services in India, returned to England in 1799. His health, however, had by this time given way, and he died in Paris on 9 May, 1803. His body was removed to London, and buried in the Temple Church. A selection from his lectures at Oxford, under the title of A Treatise on Estates and Tenures, was published by his nephew Sir Charles Harcourt Chambers in 1824.



Admitted 28 April, 1837.

Eldest son of Thomas Chambers, of Hertford. He was called to the Bar 20 Nov. 1840, was elected to the Bench in 1861, appointed Reader in 1863, and served the office of Treasurer in 1872. After a lucrative practice in the Common Law Courts, he took silk, was made Common Serjeant of the City of London in 1857 and Recorder in 1878, having previously (1872) received the honour of knighthood. In 1884 he was elected Steward of Southwark. He sat in Parliament as a Liberal for Hertford and Marylebone for many years. He died in London in 1891, and was buried at Hertford.

He left behind him an Address on Punishment and Reformation, printed in the Social Science Transactions (1862), and he was joint author of a work on the Laws relating to Buildings (1845), and of another on Railway Companies (1848).



Admitted 15 February, 1758.

Eldest son of Walter Chambre, of Kirby Kendal, Westmorland, where he was born 4 Oct. 1739. He entered the Middle Temple from Staple Inn, and removed to Gray's Inn in 1764, where he was called to the Bar in 1767. In 1796 he was made Recorder of Lancaster, and three years after raised to the Bench as Baron of the Exchequer, receiving the degree of Serjeant on the same day. In the following year he was transferred to the Common Pleas, where he sat till 1815. He died at Harrogate in 1823. He is described by Lord Brougham as "amongst the first ornaments of his profession."



Admitted 5 July, 1739.

Son and heir of Peter Champion, of Croydon, where he was born on 6 Feb. 1724-5. He was educated at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, but left without taking a degree. He sat in two Parliaments as member for St. Germans and Liskeard. He was called to the Bar 14 April, 1749, to the Bench 12 Feb. 1779, and was appointed Reader at the Inn in 1785. He continued to reside there until his death in 1801. By his will he bequeathed the Society the sum of £1,000.

After his death his works were published, with a biographical notice by his friend. Lord Lyttelton, and entitled. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, English and Latin (1801).

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