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CHARLES CHRISTOPHER PEPYS COTTENHAM

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 253 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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'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 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 until the defeat of the See also:ministry in 1841 . In 1846 he again became lord chancellor in Lord John See also: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, 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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