British jurist, born in London on the 12th of July 1816; a nephew of Lord Truro; educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1838; called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1839; appointed junior counsel to the excise and customs in 1840; queen’s counsel in 1855; counsel to the Duchy of Lancaster in 1859; a baron of the exchequer in 1860, receiving a knighthood; became judge of the Court of Probate and judge ordinary of the Divorce Court in 1863, resigning in 1873; a Privy Councillor in 1864. He was created a peer of the United Kingdom in 1869, and became a member of the Final Court of Appeal in the House of Lords. In 1875 he was appointed judge, under the Public Worship Regulation Act, and judge of the provincial courts of Canterbury and York.
