1ST See also:BARON See also:EDWARD See also:THURLOW THURLOW (1731-1806)
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See also:English See also:lord See also:chancellor, was See also:born at Bracon Ash, in the See also:county of See also:Norfolk, on the 9th of See also:December 1731
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He was the eldest son of the Rev
.
See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Thurlow
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He was educated at a private school and at the See also:grammar school of See also:Canterbury, where he was considered a bold, refractory, See also:clever boy
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In 1748 Thurlow entered See also:Caius See also:College, See also:Cambridge, but an See also:act of insubordination necessitated his leaving Cambridge without a degree (1751)
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He was for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time articled to a See also:solicitor in See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn along with the poet See also:Cowper, but in 1754 was called to the See also:bar at the Inner See also:Temple, and subsequently went on the western See also:circuit—at first with little success
.
But in the See also:case of See also:Luke See also:- ROBINSON, EDWARD (1794–1863)
- ROBINSON, HENRY CRABB (1777–1867)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1575–1625)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1650-1723)
- ROBINSON, JOHN THOMAS ROMNEY (1792–1882)
- ROBINSON, MARY [" Perdita "] (1758–1800)
- ROBINSON, SIR JOHN BEVERLEY, BART
- ROBINSON, SIR JOSEPH BENJAMIN (1845– )
- ROBINSON, THEODORE (1852-1896)
Robinson v
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The See also:Earl of See also:Winchelsea (1758) Thurlow came into
collision with See also:Sir See also:Fletcher See also:Norton, afterwards 1st See also:Baron See also:Grantley (1716-1789), then the terror of solicitors and the See also:tyrant of the bar, and put down his arrogance with dignity and success
.
From this time his practice increased rapidly
.
In 1761 he was made a See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's counsel, through the See also:influence of the duchess of Queens-See also:berry
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In 1762 he was elected a bencher of the Inner Temple
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Thurlow now with some hesitation entered himself into the ranks of the Tory party
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In 1768 he became member for See also:Tara-See also:worth
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In 1769 the See also:Douglas See also:peerage case came on for See also:hearing in the See also:House of Lords, and Thurlow, who had See also:drawn the plead. ings some years before (Notes and Queries, 3rd See also:series, vol. iii, p
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122), led for the appellant in a speech of See also:great See also:analytic See also:power
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In 1770, as a recognition of his See also:defence in the previous See also:January of the See also:expulsion of Wilkes, Thurlow was made solicitor-See also:general on the resignation of Dunning, and in the following See also:year, after he had enhanced his reputation with the See also:government by attacking the rights of juries in cases of See also:libel (Rex v
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See also:Miller, 20 St
.
Tr
.
87o-896) and the See also:liberty of the See also:press (16 Party
.
Hist
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1144), was raised to the See also:attorney-generalship
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Thurlow's public See also:life was as factious as his youth had been daring
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His hatred of the See also:American colonists, and his imprudent assertion that as attorney-general he might set aside by scire facial as forfeited every See also:charter in See also:America (debate on the American Prohibitory See also:Bill, 18 P.H
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999); his speech in See also:aggravation of See also:punishment in the case of See also:Horne See also:Tooke (20 St
.
Tr
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777-783), when he argued that the prisoner ought to be pilloried, because imprisonment was no See also:penalty to a See also:man of sedentary habits and a See also:fine would be paid by seditious subscription; and his opposition to all interference with the slave See also:trade—are characteristic
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In 1778 Thurlow became lord chancellor and Baron Thurlow of Ashfield, and took his seat in the House of Lords, where he soon acquired an almost dictatorial power
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He opposed the economical and constitutional reforms proposed by See also:Burke and Dunning
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Under See also:Rockingham he clung to the chancellorship, while conducting himself like a See also:leader of the opposition
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To the See also:short-lived See also:ministry of Shelburne he gave consistent support
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Under the See also:coalition of See also:Fox and See also:North (See also:April to December 1783) the great See also:seal was placed in See also:commission, and Lord See also:Loughborough was made first See also:commissioner
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But Thurlow, acting as the king's adviser, and in acccordance with his wishes, harassed the new ministry, and ultimately secured the rejection of Fox's See also:India Bill (24 P.H
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226)
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The coalition was at once dissolved
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See also:Pitt accepted See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, and Thurlow again became lord chancellor (Dec
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23, 1783)
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At first he supported the government, but soon his overbearing See also:temper asserted itself
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Imprudently relying on the friendship of the king, and actuated by scarcely disguised enmity to Pitt, Thurlow passed rapidly from occasional acts of hostility to See also:secret disaffection, and finally to open revolt
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He delivered himself strongly against a bill, introduced without his privity, for the restoration to the heirs of attainted owners of estates forfeited in the Jacobite See also:rebellion of 1745
.
Partly to please the king and See also:queen, partly from dislike to Burke, and partly perhaps from a real belief in the groundlessness of the See also:accusation, he supported See also:Warren See also:Hastings on every occasion " with indecorous violence." His negotiations with the Whigs during the discussion of the Regency Bill (1788-Feb
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19, 1789) were designed to secure his seat on the See also:woolsack in the event of Fox being called to power
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The See also:climax was reached in 1792, when he attacked Pitt's bill " to establish a sinking fund for the redemption of the See also:national See also:debt," not on See also:account of the economic objections to which it was liable, but on the trivial ground that it was an unconstitutional See also:attempt to bind further parliaments
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The bill was carried, but only by a narrow See also:majority, and Pitt, feeling that co-operation with such a colleague was impossible, insisted successfully on his dismissal (Julie 15, 1792)
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The ex-chancellor, who had a few days before been created Baron Thurlow of Thurlow, with See also:remainder to his See also:brothers and their male descendants, now retired into private life, and, with the exception of a futile intrigue, under the auspices of the See also:prince of See also:Wales, for the formation of a ministry from which Pitt and Fox should be excluded, and in which the earl of Moira should be premier and Thurlow chancellor (1797), finally
abandoned See also:hope of office
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In 1795 he opposed the See also:Treason and See also:Sedition bills without success
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In r8or he spoke on behalf of Horne Tooke—now his friend—when a bill was introduced to render a See also:priest in orders ineligible for a seat in the House of See also:Commons
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His last recorded See also:appearance in the House of Lords was in 1802
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He now spent his time between his See also:villa at See also:Dulwich and various seaside resorts
.
He died at See also:Brighton on the 12th of See also:September
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1806, and was buried in the Temple See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church
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Thurlow was never married, but See also:left three natural daughters, for whom he made a handsome See also:provision
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The See also:title descended to his See also:nephew, son of the See also:bishop of See also:Durham
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Lord Thurlow was a See also:master of a coarse See also:caustic wit, which habitually in his private and too frequently in his public life displayed itself in See also:profanity
.
He was a See also:good classical See also:scholar and made occasional See also:translations in See also:verse from See also:Homer and See also:Euripides
.
His judicial and his ecclesiastical patronage were wisely exercised; he was the See also:patron of Dr See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson and of See also:Crabbe, and was the first to detect the great legal merits of See also:Eldon
.
Thurlow's See also:personal appearance was striking
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His dark complexion, harsh but See also:regular features, severe and dignified demeanour, piercing See also:black eyes and bushy eyebrows, doubtless contributed to his professional and See also:political See also:eminence and provoked the See also:sarcasm of Fox that he looked wiser than any man ever was
.
Yet he was far from being an impostor
.
By intense though irregular application he had acquired a wide if not a profound knowledge of See also:law
.
Clear-headed, self-confident and fluent, able at once to See also:reason temperately and to assert strongly, capable of grasping, rapidly assimilating, and forcibly reproducing See also:minute and complicated details, he possessed all the qualities which command success
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His speeches in the trial of the duchess of See also:Kingston for See also:bigamy (20 St
.
Tr
.
355–651) are vigorous and effective, while his famous opening in the Douglas peerage case and his See also:argument for the See also:Crown in See also:- CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
- CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
- CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN
- CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
- CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
- CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
- CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)
Campbell v
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See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall (2o St
.
Tr
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312–316) show that he might have rendered high service to the judicial literature of his See also:country had he relied more upon his own See also:industry and less upon the learning of Hargrave and See also:Kenyon
.
See Lord Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, vii
.
153–333; See also:Foss's See also:Judges of See also:England, viii
.
374–385; Public Characters (1798); Notes and Queries, 2nd series, vol. in. p
.
283; 3rd series, vol. iii. p
.
122; Reports of his decisions by See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown, See also:Dickens and Vesey (jun.) ; See also:Brougham's Statesmen of the Time of See also:George III
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