1ST

BARON

See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)

JOHN

See also:

• 1ST BARON JOHN ROMILLY ROMILLY (1802-1874)
• ROMILLY, SIR SAMUEL (1757-1818)

ROMILLY ROMILLY (1802-1874)  , English judge, was the second son of Sir Samuel Romilly, and was born on the loth of January 1802 . He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1827 . He first entered parliament in 1832 as member for Bridport, and in 1843 he became a queen's counsel . He was elected M.P. for Devonport in 1847, and was appointed solicitor-general in 1848 in Lord John Russell's administration and attorney-general in 185o . In 1851 he was appointed master of the rolls, and continued to sit for Devonport till the general election in 1852, when he was defeated . He was the last master of the rolls to sit in parliament . Romilly was raised to the peerage as Baron Romilly of Barry in i866, and retired from the mastership of the rolls in 1873 . He did much poll for the city of Westminster . He did not long survive his to remove the restrictions which had long hampered research among the public records and state papers . Lord Romilly died in .London on the 23rd of December 1874 .