DENMAN

Thomas Denman , 1 Baron ( only son of Thomas Denman of London, physician 1733–1815 ). b. Queen st. Golden sq. London 23 Feb. 1779; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1800, M.A. 1803; a special pleader 1803; barrister L.I. 9 May 1806, bencher 1820; M.P. for Wareham, Dorset 1818; M.P. for Nottingham 1820–26 and 1830–32; solicitor general to Queen Caroline 8 Feb. 1820 to her death 7 Aug. 1821; received freedom of city of London 7 June 1821; common serjeant of city of London 26 April 1822 to Nov. 1830; K.C. Nov. 1828; attorney general 19 Nov. 1830 to 4 Nov. 1832; knighted by Wm. 4 at St. James’s palace 24 Nov. 1830; lord chief justice of King’s Bench 4 Nov. 1832 to 28 Feb. 1850; P.C. 9 Nov. 1832; created Baron Denman of Dovedale, Derby shire 22 March 1834; the first chief justice of England who sat in House of Lords without his judicial robes. d. Stoke Albany near Rocking ham, North amp tons hire 22 Sep. 1854. Arnould’s Memoir of Lord Denman 2 vols. 1873, portrait ; The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 436–45; J. White side’s Early sketches of eminent persons (1870) 21–45; H. Martin eau’s Biographical sketches , 4 ed. (1876) 238–46.