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 130 CAMTBELL — CAMPDEN. Lino. Inn, Nov. lSOOC) ; Barrister, Michmas. 1 SOU, travelling tlio Oxford circuit and editing (besides other legal works) a series of reports at A'isi Prills; King's Counsel and Bencher, 1S27; Sol.-Gcu. and Knighted Nov. 1832; Attorney-Gen. March to Dec, 1S34 and April 1 S3. r > to June 1S41, during which period, having been twice passed over in the appointment of the Mastership of the Rolls, " he resigned, hut .1 Peerage being given to his wife [22 Jauy. 1836] he was appeased and resumed his post "(b). He was M.P. for Stafford, 1S30-32 ; for Dudley, 1S32-34 ; and for Edinburgh^) 1S34-41. In June 1841 ho was made Lord Chancellor OF Ireland, being raised to the Peerage as above-stated, but only retaining office a few weeks. In June 1846 on the return of the Whig party, he was made Chancellor of the Duchy "f Lancaster, with a seat in the Cabinet, resigning both, in March 18.10, when appointed Ch. Justice of the Queen's Bench. On IS June 1859 till his death (2 years later) lie was Lord Chancellor of Enoland. He m. S .Sep. 1S21 at Abinger, Surrey, Mary Elisabeth, 1st da. of James (Scarlett). 1st BARON Ahinoer, by his 1st wife. Louise Henriette, da. of Peter Cami'iieli. of Kilmorev, CO. Argvle. She, who was b. 21' April 1796, was a: 22 Jauy. 1S36, BARONESS STRATH EDEN OF CUPAR, co. Fife, She d. 25 March 1860 at Stratheden House, Knightsbridge, Midx. lie U. there, very suddenly from the bursting of a blood vessel, being found dead in his chair 24 June 1861, having attended a Cabinet Council and entertained friends at dinner the previous day. He was bur. in the ruins of Jedburgh AbbeyC 1 ). II. 18G1. 1. William Fbbdekick (Ca.mhsell), ILutox Sthatiie- den of ClU'Ait (1886) and Baron Campbell, of St. Andrew's (1811), 1st s. and h., b. 15 Oct. 1821 ; tnc. his mother in the Barony of Stratheden, 25 March 1S60, and his Father, in the Barony of Campbell, 24 June 1SG1. See " Stuatiieues of Cdi>ar," Barony of, a: 1836. CAMPDEN. Viscountcy. i. Sm Baptist Hicks, Knt. and Bart., was, on 5 May T MQ 1628, cr. BARON HICKS OF ILMINGTON, co. Warwick, and VISCOUNT CAMPDEN, co. Gloucester, for life [only] with rem. to [his son-in-law] Edward [Noel], Bakon Noel of Rsduncton, and the heirs nvalc of his body. He took his seat accordingly on the Sth inst.( e ) He was 3d and yst s. of Robert Hicks of Cheapside, London, Mercer, by Julian, da. of William ARTHTra, of Clapham, and amassed a large fortune by trade. He was knighted 23 July 1603, soon after which ho became financial agent to the King. In 1607 he maintained his right to keep a shop in London after knighthood ; Alderman of London before 1612, when he built "Hicks Hall " in Clerkenwell, Midx., and founded a market house and hospital at Campden, co. Glouc. On 1 July 1620 he was cr. a Baronet : M.P. for ( a ) Here he studied " Special Pleading " under the well-known Mr. Tidd, of whom he writes thus " Tidd lived to see four sons [i.e. pupils] sittiug together in the House of Lords, viz.. Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Deninan, Lord Cottenhaui and Lord Campbell." —See " Annual Reg." for 1861. M See " Foss." ( c ) In his speech to his new constituents ho described himself as "plain John Campbell," a designation by which, even after the two peerages obtained by him (one for his wife and the other for himself), he was not uncommonly known. ('•) Besides his legal works he was (1845-47; author of the " Lives of the Lord Chancellors" down to (1827) the resignation of Lord Eldon, of which the concluding vol. (pub. after his death) containing "Lyndhurst and Brougham," "is a marvel of inaccuracy and misrepresentation, if [indeed it was] not written with actual malice," and " has done more than anything else to lower the reputation " of its author. See Stephen's "Nat. Biography." In 1849 he brought out the "Lives of the Chief Justices" down to 1788, and in 1857 the final vol. thereof containing the lives of " Kenyan, Ellenborough, and Tenterden." (°) Tho' a. lift peerage and one (uuliko many conferred on females) without rem. to heirs male of the body, it had a spec. rem. and ho enabled the grantee to take his seat in the House of Lords. Among Peerages somewhat similarly conferred are (1) Chichester, cr. 1644, (2) Feversham, cr. 1676, (3) Hvde cr. 1756, (4) Montagu, cr. 1780, kc. See also the Earldom of Thomund [I.] cr. by Heu. VIII.