Denman

Denman, THOMAS, BARON, was born in London, 23d February 1779, graduated at Cambridge, and entered Lincoln's Inn in 1806. He was associated with Brougham in the courageous defence of Queen Caroline (1820), and shared his consequent popularity. He sat in parliament from 1818-26, and was Attorney-general in Earl Grey's administration in 1830-32; he succeeded Lord Tenterden as Lord Chief-justice of England in 1832, and was raised to the peerage in 1834. He retired from the bench in 1850, and died 22d September 1854. See Memoir by Sir Joseph Arnould (2 vols. 1873).—His fourth son, the RIGHT HON. GEORGE DENMAN, was born 23d December 1819, studied at Cambridge, and entered Lincoln's Inn in 1846. He represented Tiverton in parliament in 1859-65 and 1866-72; in 1872 he was raised to the bench of the Court of Common Pleas, and in 1873 he became a judge of the High Court of Judicature. He retired in 1893, being made a Privy Councillor, and died 21st September 1896.