1ST See also:BARON See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:DENMAN (1779-1854)
, See also:English See also:judge, was See also:born in See also:London, the son of a well-known physician, on the 23rd of See also:July 1779
.
He was educated at See also:Eton and St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he graduated in 1800
.
Soon after leaving Cambridge he married; and in 18o6 he was called to the See also:bar at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn, and at once entered upon practice
.
His success was rapid, and in a few years he attained a position at the bar second only to that of See also:Brougham and See also:Scarlett (See also:Lord See also:Abinger)
.
He distinguished himself by his eloquent See also:defence of the See also:Luddites; but his most brilliant See also:appearance was as one of the counsel for See also:Queen See also:Caroline
.
His speech before the Lords was very powerful, and some competent See also:judges even considered it not inferior to Brougham's
.
It contained one or two daring passages, which made the 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 his See also:bitter enemy, and retarded his legal promotion
.
At the See also:general See also:election of 1818 he was returned M.P. for See also:Wareham, and at once took his seat with the Whig opposition
.
In the following See also:year he was returned for See also:Nottingham, for which See also:place he continued to sit till his See also:elevation to the See also:bench in 1832
.
Hi3 liberal principles had caused his exclusion from 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 till in 1822 he was appointed See also:common See also:serjeant by the See also:corporation of London
.
In 1830 he was made See also:attorney-general under Lord See also:Grey's See also:administration
.
Two years later he was made lord See also:chief See also:justice of the King's Bench, and in 1834 he was raised to the See also:peerage
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As a judge he is most celebrated for his decision in the important See also:privilege See also:case of Slockdale v
.
See also:Hansard (9 Ad
.
& El
.
I.; 11 Ad
.
& El
.
253), but he was never ranked as a profound lawyer
.
In 1850 he resigned his chief justiceship and retired into private See also:life
.
He died on the 26th of See also:September 1854, his See also:title continuing in the See also:direct See also:line
.
The HoN
.
See also:GEORGE See also:DENMAN (1819-1896), his See also:fourth son, was also a distinguished lawyer, and a judge of the Queen's Bench from 1872 till his See also:death in 1896
.
See Memoir of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas, first Lord Denman, by See also:Sir See also:Joseph See also:Arnould (2 vols., 1873) ; E
.
See also:Manson, Builders of our See also:Law (1904)
.
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