Cresswell, SIR CRESSWELL

Cresswell, SIR CRESSWELL, judge, born in Newcastle in 1794, was educated at Charterhouse and Cambridge, and called to the bar in 1819. Between 1822 and 1830 he issued, with Barnewall, a valuable series of Reports; in 1830 he was appointed recorder of Hull, and in 1834 a king's counsel. He was returned to parliament by Liverpool in 1837 and 1841, and in 1842 Peel made him a puisne judge. He sat in the Court of Common Pleas till 1858, when he was appointed first judge of the newly-created Probate and Divorce Court, the success of which was mainly due to him. He was especially distinguished in will cases and cases in mercantile and navigation law. He died shortly after a carriage accident, 29th July 1863.