BARON NATHANIEL

See also:

• LINDLEY, JOHN (1799-1865)
• BARON NATHANIEL LINDLEY LINDLEY (1828- )
• LINDLEY, WILLIAM (1808–1900)

LINDLEY LINDLEY (1828- )  , English judge, son of John Lindley (q.v.), was born at Acton Green, Middlesex, on the 29th of November 1828 . He was educated at University College School, and studied for a time at University College, London . He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 185o, and began practice in the Court of Chancery . In 1855 he published An Introduction to the Study of Jurisprudence, consisting of a translation of the general part of Thibaut's System des Pandekten Rechts, with copious notes . In 186o he published in two volumes his Treatise on the Law of Partnership, including its Application to Joint Stock and other Companies, and in 1862 a supplement including the Companies Act of 1862 . This work has since been developed into two text-books well known to lawyers as Lindley on Companies and Lindley on Partnership . He became a Q.C. in January 1872 . In 1894 he was elected a bencher of the Middle Temple, of which he was treasurer in 1894 . In 1875 he was appointed a justice of common pleas, the appointment of a chancery barrister to a common-law court being justified by the fusion of law and equity then shortly to be brought about, in theory at all events, by the Judicature Acts . In pursuance of the changes now made be became a justice of the common pleas division of the High Court of Justice, and in 188o of the queen's bench division . In 1881 he was raised to the Court of Appeal and made a privy councillor . In 1897, Lord Justice Lindley succeeded Lord Esher as master of the rolls, and in 1900 he was made a lord of appeal in ordinary with a life peerage and the title of Baron Lindley .

He resigned the judicial

post in 1905 . Lord Lindley was the last serjeant-at-law appointed, and the last judge to wear the serjeant's coif, or rather the black patch representing it, on the judicial wig . He married in 1858 Sarah Katherine, daughter of Edward John Teale of Leeds .