English barrister, born at Greenock, near Glasgow, in 1812; graduated from and elected a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1834; called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1839; became a queen’s counsel in 1857, and was elected to Parliament for Marylebone in 1874, which he represented until 1880. He began publishing works on law in 1827, his first three referring to law in Scotland. His other works include Composition with Creditors (1841); Law Relating to Simony (1844); Hortensius, a historical essay on the duties of an advocate (1849); Custody of Infants (1850); History of Trial by Jury (1852); The Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena, from the letters, etc., of Lieutenant-General Sir Hudson Lowe (1853); Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero (1864); Rome and Its Ruins (1865); Cases and Opinions on Constitutional Law and Various Points of English Jurisprudence (1869); The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century (1871); Letters from Lord Brougham to William Forsyth (1872); Hannibal in Italy, a historical drama (1872); Essays, Critical and Narrative (1874); The Slavonic Provinces South of the Danube (1876).
