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See also:

• FITZROY
• FITZROY, ROBERT (1805-1865)

FITZROY

See also:

• KELLY, EDWARD (1854–188o)
• KELLY, HUGH (1739–1777)
• KELLY, MICHAEL (1762–1826)
• SIR FITZROY KELLY (1796–1880)

KELLY (1796–1880)  , English judge, was born in London in October 1796, the son of a captain in the Royal Navy . In 1824 he was called to the bar, where he gained a reputation as a skilled pleader . In 1834 he was made a king's counsel . A strong Tory, he was returned as member of parliament for Ipswich in 1835, but was unseated on petition . In 1837 however he again became member for that town . In 1843 he sat for Cambridge, and in 1852 was elected member for Harwich, but, a vacancy suddenly occurring in East Suffolk, he preferred to contest that seat and was elected . He was solicitor-general in 1845 (when he was knighted), and again in 1852 . In 1858–1859 he was attorney-general in Lord Derby's second administration . In 1866 he was raised to the bench as chief baron of the exchequer and made a member of the Privy Council . He died at Brighton on the 18th of September 1880 . See E . Foss, Lives of the Judges (187o) .