CRESS WELL

Add is on John Baker ( son of Francis Easter by of Black heath, Kent who a umed name of Cre well and d. 1820 ). b. 1 Oct. 1788; ed. at C.C. coll. Ox., M.A. 1810; sheriff of North umber land 1821; M.P. for North North umber land 12 July 1841 to 23 July 1847. d. Cre well near Morpeth 5 May 1879. CRESS WELL, Sir Cre well ( brother of the preceding ). b. Bigg market, Newcastle 1794; ed. at Charter house and Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818; admitted at M.T. 1810, at I.T. 1815, barrister I.T. 25 June 1819, bencher 1834; went Northern circuit of which he became joint leader with Robert Alexander; recorder of Hull 1830; K.C. 1834; M.P. for Liverpool 26 July 1837 to Jany. 1842; justice of Court of Common Pleas 22 Jany. 1842 to 11 Jany. 1858; serjeant-at-law 27 Jany. 1842; knighted at St. James’s Palace 4 May 1842; judge of Court of Probate and Divorce (established by 20 & 21 Vict. c. 77) 11 Jany. 1858 to death; adjudicated upon 1000 cases in only one of which was his judgment reversed; P.C. 3 Feb. 1858; published with R. V. Bar new all Reports of cases in the Court of King’s Bench 1822–1830 , 10 vols. 1823–32; thrown from his horse on Constitution hill and his kneepan fractured 17 July 1863. d. from heart disease at 21 Prince’s gate, Hyde park, London 29 July 1863. Law Mag. and law review xx , 179–88 (1866); Law Times xxxviii , 535–7 (1863).