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1ST BARON THOMAS DENMAN (1779-1854)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 23 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON See also: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 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 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 .

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, 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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