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BARON NATHANIEL LINDLEY LINDLEY (1828- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 719 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON NATHANIEL See also:LINDLEY LINDLEY (1828- )  , See also:English See also:judge, son of See also:John See also:Lindley (q.v.), was See also:born at See also:Acton See also:Green, See also:Middlesex, on the 29th of See also:November 1828 . He was educated at University See also:College School, and studied for a See also:time at University College, See also:London . He was called to the See also:bar at the See also:Middle See also:Temple in 185o, and began practice in the See also:Court of See also:Chancery . In 1855 he published An Introduction to the Study of See also:Jurisprudence, consisting of a See also:translation of the See also:general See also:part of See also:Thibaut's See also:System See also:des Pandekten Rechts, with copious notes . In 186o he published in two volumes his See also:Treatise on the See also:Law of See also:Partnership, including its Application to See also:Joint Stock and other Companies, and in 1862 a supplement including the Companies See also:Act of 1862 . This See also:work has since been See also:developed into two See also:text-books well known to lawyers as Lindley on Companies and Lindley on Partnership . He became a Q.C. in See also: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 See also:justice of See also:common pleas, the See also:appointment of a chancery See also:barrister to a common-law court being justified by the See also:fusion of law and See also: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 See also:division of the High Court of Justice, and in 188o of the See also:queen's See also:bench division . In 1881 he was raised to the Court of See also:Appeal and made a privy councillor . In 1897, See also:Lord Justice Lindley succeeded Lord See also:Esher as See also:master of the rolls, and in 1900 he was made a lord of appeal in See also:ordinary with a See also:life See also:peerage and the See also:title of See also:Baron Lindley .

He resigned the judicial See also:

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

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