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 378 TKXTKRDKX. 0;itliiMlr.il precinct* 7 Qt* 1702 ojic] tap. at the. Cathedral ; cd. at the King's School there, of which, at 17, he became Captain obtained an exhibition at Corpus Christi, Oxford, becoming scholar thereof 1 7M 1 : Chancellor's medallist (Latin verse) 17S1 and (English essay) 17S6" : B.A. 1784 ; M. A. 1788, Wing subsequently Fellow mid Bub-Tutor of his College ; Student of the MM. 11 e Temple 1787, and of the Inner Temple 1793, practicing below the liar as a special Pleader ; Barrister (Inner Temple) 17%, being junior counsel to the Treasury, and, as such, employed in the numerous State prosecutions for the next 10 years; Recorder of Oxford 1S01 : author of a work entitled "Law relative to Merchant Ship* and Seamen" in 1802, his pro- fessional income in 1S07 being above £8,000 a year, lie wan a Justice of the Common Pleas. Jan. and Hay lSlti and of the King's flench 1816-18, being Kni/jhttd 11 May lSlli ; L. Chief Justice of the King's Beuch(>') -1 Nov. ISIS till" bin death in 1832, being raised to the pterayc 30 April 1S27, as above stated. He (It. 13 July 1795, at Basilden, Berks, Mary, 1st da. of John Lagier Lammttk, of the Grotto Hons,, iu Basilden afsd. He d. 4 Nov. 1832, of inflammation [Qg. of the lungs] (exactly 14 years after his appointment as Chief Justice) at his house, 28 Russell square, 4. and was bur. 10 Nov. 1832. in the chapel of the Foundling Hospital (of which he wns a Governor) age.l 7fl,( e ) Will dat. 0 March anil pr. 21 Nov. 1832, under £120,000. His widow d. of effusion on the brain, a month later, 2C Dec. 1832 iu Russell square afsd. uud was bur. with him. II. 1S32. 2. John- Henry (Arrott), Baron Tknterden of IIendOS, 1st s. and h. ; b. (> Aug. 17'.'G and bap. at St. George the Martyr, Queen square Midx. ; ed. at Balliol Coll. Oxford; B.A. 1S18: M.A. 1821; Barrister (Inner Temple) 1825 ; sue. to the pecraye, 1 Nuv. 1S32. He d. num. 10 April 1S70, aged 74. III. 1870. J. CnARi.ES Stuart Audrey (Arisott), Baron TeNTER- DEN OF Hkxdon, nephew and h., being only s. aud h. of the Hon. Charles AnBOTT, 15th Light Dragoons, by Emily Frances, 3d da. of Rear Admiral Lord George Stuaiit. yr. s. of John, 1st Maiiqikss of Bite, which Charles (wlioi/. 15 Dec. 183S, aged 35") was 2ll and yst. s. of the 1st Baron. He was b. 26 Dee. 1S34, in Dean street, Park lane ; Clerk in the Foreign office 1854 ; Sec. to the Garter mission to Portugal 18ti5, being made, consequently, Kniglit of the Tower and Sword of Portugal ; Precis writer at the Foreign office 18t5'J ; t»e. ><• the peerage 10 April 1S70 ; Sec. to the commission at Washington 1871 ; C.B. 1>71 ; Agent for the settlement of the Alabama claims at the Geneva conference ; Assistant Under- Sec, for foreign affairs 1871-73 and Permanent Under-Sec. 1S73-S2 ; K.C.B. 1S7S. ( !l ) A schoolfellow describes him as " grave, silent aud demure ; always studious aud well-behaved " (*>) " There was a difficulty in choosing a successor [to Lord Klleuborongh as Cb. Justice]. Sir Samuel Shepherd, the Attorney Gen., was unpopular and in bad health; Gilford, the Solicitor Gen, was too young. In these circumstances Abbott was selected tho' with some misgiving. ' We endeavoured to do the best we could,' wrote Lord Kldon to Lord Kenyon after the appointment was made ; ' we could not do what would have been really unexceptionable, it was impossible " [.Vat. Hioyr.] ( c ) " In no sense or capacity was Lord Tcnterdeu great. As a Lawyer he was surpassed iu acuteness and erudition by some Judges of his own time. He was totally destitute of eloqneuce and rather despised it " [A r at. Hiirjr.]. Koss (" Jiul/cs") says that his mind and character were both " peculiarly fitted for the Judicial office," and that he was " peculiarly a common-sense Judge." The " Gent. Hay.," after commenting on his remarkable and rapid advancement, describes him as "a man of good habits of business and diligent reading but in no respect of a capacity more than ordinary," but adds that " his unequalled diligence, his vast learning, perfect good temper and unspotted integrity, constitute the highest praise that can be offered to a Judge." Greville, in his Aftffiairs (vol. ii p. 331) says, "In spite of Ins low birth, want of oratorical power, and of personal dignity he was greatly revered and dreaded on the Bench. He was an austere but not an ill-humoured judge ; bis manners were remarkably plain and unpolished tho' not vulgar. He was an elegant scholar aud cultivated classical literature to the last." See vol. vi, p. 451, note " b,' as to his being the "Lord Widdriugtun " iu Warren's novel of " Ten Thousand a Year."