See also:CHARLES See also:CHRISTOPHER See also:PEPYS See also:COTTENHAM
, 1st See also:EARL OF (1781-1851), See also:lord See also:chancellor of See also:England, was See also:born in See also:London on the 29th of See also:April 1781
.
He was the second son of See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William W
.
See also:Pepys, a See also:master in See also:chancery, who was descended from See also:John Pepys, of See also:Cottenham, See also:Cambridgeshire, a See also:great-See also:uncle of See also:Samuel Pepys, the diarist
.
Educated at See also:Harrow and Trinity See also:College,
See also:Cambridge, Pepys was called to the See also:bar at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn in 1804
.
Practising at the chancery bar, his progress was extremely slow, and it was not till twenty-two years after his See also:call that he was made a See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's counsel
.
He sat in See also:parliament, successively, for Higham See also:Ferrara and See also:Malton, was appointed See also:solicitor-See also:general in 1834, and in the same See also:year became master of the rolls
.
On the formation of Lord See also:Melbourne's second See also:administration in April 1835, the great See also:seal was for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in See also:commission, but eventually Pepys, who had been one of the commissioners, was appointed lord chancellor (See also:January 1836) with the See also:title of See also:Baron Cottenham
.
He held See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office until the defeat of the See also:ministry in 1841
.
In 1846 he again became lord chancellor in Lord John See also:- RUSSELL (FAMILY)
- RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
- RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
- RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
- RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
- RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
- RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
- RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
- RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
- RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )
Russell's administration
.
His See also:health, however, had been gradually failing, and he resigned in 185o
.
Shortly before his retirement he had been created See also:Viscount Crowhurst and earl of Cottenham
.
He died at Pietra See also:Santa, in the duchy of See also:Lucca, on the 29th of April 1851
.
Both as a lawyer and as a See also:judge, Lord Cottenham was remark-able for his mastery of the principles of See also:equity
.
An indifferent See also:speaker, he nevertheless adorned the See also:bench by the soundness of his See also:law and the excellence of his judgments
.
As a politician he was somewhat of a failure, while his only important contribution to the See also:statute-See also:book was the Judgments See also:Act 1838, which amended the law for the See also:relief of insolvent debtors
.
The title of earl of Cottenham descended in turn to two of the earl's sons, See also:Charles See also:Edward (1824–1863), and William John (1825–1881), and then to the Tatter's son, Kenelm Charles Edward (b
.
1874)
.
AuTHOxtTIEs.—See also:- CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
- CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
- CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN
- CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
- CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
- CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
- CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)
Campbell, Lives of the Lord Chancellors (1869) ; E
.
See also:Foss, The See also:Judges of England (1848–1864) ; E
.
See also:Manson, Builders of our Law (1904); J
.
B
.
Atlay, The Victorian Chancellors (1906)
.
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