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His father urged him to try for a while hold that reputation, except on questions of longer, and his practice soon increased. mercantile law. In the relations of private life Judge Carr Though personally never a popular man, he never had a superior. His gentleness of held many public offices. He became prom disposition and suavity of manners were on inent at the Richmond City Bar about the all occasions conspicuous. The integrity time that Wickham, Call, and their contem of his life, and the spotless purity of his poraries left the field to younger men. He morals and conduct commanded universal was a member of the famous Convention respect. He is buried in Shockoe Hill of 1829-30. He made a great impression

there. He spoke upon Cemetery at Rich the basis of represen mond. tation, — the bow of Richard E. Parker, Ulysses, which tried to on the gth of Febru its utmost the strength ary, 1837, was made of every candidate for a judge to fill the va fame in that body.1 cancy caused by the Though he spoke after death of Judge Carr. Leigh, Upshur, DodHe was a son of Judge dridge, and Chapman Richard Parker of the Johnson, he made a first Court of Appeals. great impression. His The son of Judge Richard E. Parker, mind was lucid and direct. He understood Judge Richard Parker, no quibbling, and de now residing at Win spised all sophistry. chester, Va., was the He carried his points circuit judge who by storm. He is presided at the trial said to have resolved of John Brown in in early youth to let 1859. alonedeclamation, and Robert Stanard, a to rely solely upon talented and brilliant common-sense. It is lawyer of the city of said that with the Richmond, waselected HENRY ST. GEORGE TUCKER. smallest ground to to fill the vacancy stand upon he could caused by the death shake the strongest judgments of the gravest of Judge Brockenbrough, Jan. 19, 1839. Judge Stanard was a native of Spottsyl- courts. Many may have surpassed him on vania County. He was born Aug. 17, 1781, the hustings or before a jury, but before a and died while writing an opinion in Rich judge or judges his logic was overwhelming. mond, May 14, 1846. Mr. W. G. Stanard — Under a frigid exterior, he concealed a a relative of the judge, to whom the author of warm and generous heart. The vacancy created by the death of J udge this sketch is much indebted — says that after Stanard had been at the bar several years, Allen Taylor of the Seventeenth Circuit was his professional success had been so small, filled in the year 1836 by the appointment he wrote his father that it was evident that of John James Allen, who lived in Clarks he had mistaken his calling; that he was burg, Harrison County, (then) Va. He was unwilling longer to be dependent upon him, appointed by Wyndham Robertson, Esq., and that he wished to give up the bar. 1 Southern Literary Messenger, vol. xvii. p. 152.