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 278 BRAMPTON Judge of the High Court 2 Nov. i876,(^) being transferred to the Exchequer Division 12 days later; knighted 28 Nov. 1876; retired from the Bench i Jan. 1899, with a pension of £T,iS'^°- O" ^7 J^"- i^99> he was cr. BARON BRAMPTON OF BRAMPTON, co. Huntingdon,^ and took his seat 7 Feb. following. P.C. 7 Mar. 1899. He m., istly, ( — ) PCasey.Q She <:/. 10 Sep. 1886, at 12 Cleveland Row, St. James's, and was bur. in Brompton Cemetery. He ?«., 2ndly, 17 Aug. 1887, Jane Louisa,("^) da. of Henry Francis Reynolds, of Hulme, Lancashire, by Catherine ( — ), his wife. He d. s.p., 6 Oct. 1907, at 5 Tilney Str., Park Lane, aged 90, and was bur. (after a service in the Rom. Cath. Cathedral, Westm.) in Kensal Green Cemetery, near his wife's mother, " Mrs. Catherine Reynolds," when his Peerage became extinct.(^) Will pr. above over ;^3i6,ooo gross and ;^3 15,000 net.Q (^) He himself writes, "I accepted and received my appointment as a Judge of the Exchequer Court on 2 Nov. of that year [1876]." He had previously, in 1874, refused the offer of a puisne Judgeship made him by Lord Cairns. He clung, not unnaturally, to the ancient title of Baron borne by the puisne Judges of the Ex- chequer for about 700 years, instead of the new-fangled " Mr. Justice " introduced when the former style had been most unnecessarily abolished by the Judicature Act of 1873. V.G. {'') He took this title owing to have inherited a little farm in that village from his father's half-brother. V.G. if) An illiterate person of the domestic servant class, who was bedridden for some years before her death. V.G. ('') She was sometime a member of the Haymarket Company under Buckstone's management. For a list of peers who have married actresses, singers, and dancers, see Appendix C in the last volume. V.G. (°) He was highly successful at the Bar, was associated with Coleridge as one of the leading Counsel against the Claimant in the famous Tichborne case, and was a brilliant cross-examiner, but did not make a great judge. " A large man, with a massive head, a deep voice, and well shaped hands ... a commanding character and a power of insight which made it a pleasure to hear him try a case." [Notes from the life of an ordinary mortal). When taking his seat on the Bench he is thus des- cribed by another member of the profession: " A spotless collar and cuffs; wig white as snow; face and features as fine as Chantrey's best chisel could carve them." Apropos of his unwillingness to part with money, a good story is told of Serjeant Ballantine saying to him, " What will you do with your money when you die? You have no children, and you can't take it with you, and if you could it would melt !" He was a man of sporting tastes, standing Counsel to the Jockey Club, member thereof, and votary of the Turf. His Reminiscences, ed. by Richard Harris, K.C., 1904, though some may find them entertaining, tended to smirch his reputation, and are emphatically not a KTijfia e? ael. V.G. (') With the exception of a few small legacies, she inherited the whole of his fortune. By her will, and a letter by both of them, dat. Apr. 1905, expressing their joint intention, ^^250, 000 was left to charity, and the residue to the R.C. Archbishop of Westm. Having come under the influence of Cardinal Manning, Lord Brampton became a Rom. Cath. in Mar. 1884, and erected a memorial chapel
 * ^ 1 4 1, 000 gross and net. She d. 6 weeks later, 17 Nov. 1907. Will pr.