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chequer, because he was an equity lawyer. Bishop of Exeter. The Bishop refused to He point blank refused to be nominated as institute Mr. Gorham to the Vicarage of member for Marylebone, because he was Brampton Speke on account of a difference expected to give election pledges before of opinion on a point in the doctrine of hand. Eventually, however, in January, baptism. Mr. Gorham appealed to the 1835, he was raised simultaneously to the Privy Council, whose judgment, delivered by mastership of the Rolls, and to the peerage Lord Langdale, was in his favor. as Baron Langdale of Langdale in West moreland. In early life Langdale had been a radical; his views LORD ROM ILLY. were tempered, how ever, by the excesses A sketch of Lord of the French Revo Romilly naturally fol lution : and although lows an account of in the House of Lords Lord Langdale, for he took no active the former judge en share in party politics tered upon and com ( indeed he made an pleted the great work understanding that he of the latter in regard should not be re to the public records, quired to do this a and supplemented it sine qua non to his by the effective in acceptance of office) terest which he took he showed his polit in the reproduction of ical characteristics in the State papers and the work of legal re early chronicles. De form, zeal in sweep scended from a Hu ing away abuses, guenot family which and moderation in the revocation of the safe-guarding exist Edict of Nantes had ing rights. We owe driven into England, to him the abolition John Romilly was I.ORU JUSTICE COTTON of the old practice of born in the early taxing suitors with years of the present fees towards the establishment and support century. He was educated at Trinity College, of the courts and their officers, and the cre- Cambridge, and joined the bar of Gray's Inn ation of the Record Office. During the illness (one of whose glories he is) in 1827. Five of Lord Chancellor Coltenham, Langdale, years later he became member of Parliament along with Sir Lancelot Shadwell and Baron for Bridport, a constituency from which he Rolfe, held the great seal in Commission changed to Devonport in 1851. He was from June 19th, 1850, till July 15th in the made Solicitor-General in March, 1848, Attor same year, when Sir Thomas Wilde was ney-General in July, 1850, and Master of the raised to the woolsack as Lord Truro. He Rolls in 1851. In 1865 he was raised to the retired from the Bench on March 28th, peerage as Lord Romilly of Barry. He died 1 85 1, and died on the 18th of the following in 1873 and was succeeded by Sir George April. Langd^le's greatest judgment was Jessel. Lord Romilly was a distinguished delivered in the case of Gorham v. the lawyer, and he made a painstaking and com