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ABINGER, See also:JAMES See also:SCARLETT, 1ST See also:BARON (1769-1844) , See also:English See also:judge, was See also:born on the 13th of See also:December 1769 in See also:Jamaica, where his See also:father, See also:Robert Scarlett, had See also:property. In the summer of 1785 he was sent to See also:England to See also:complete his See also:education, and went to Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, taking his B.A. degree in 1789. Having entered the Inner See also:Temple he was called to the See also:bar in 1991, and joined the See also:northern See also:circuit and the See also:Lancashire sessions. Though he had no professional connexions, by steady application he gradually obtained a large practice, ultimately confining himself to the See also:Court of See also:King's See also:Bench and the northern circuit. He took See also:silk in 1816, and from this See also:time till the See also:close of 1834 he was the most, successful lawyer at the bar; he was particularly effective before a See also:jury, and his income reached the high-See also:water See also:mark of £18,5oo, a large sum for that See also:period. He began See also:life as a Whig, and first entered See also:parliament in 1819 as member for See also:Peterborough, representing that See also:constituency with a See also:short break (1822–1823) till 1830, when he was elected for the See also:borough of See also:Malton. He became See also:attorney-See also:general, and was knighted when See also:Canning formed his See also:ministry in 1827; and though he resigned when the See also:duke of See also:Wellington came into rower in 1828, he resumed See also:office in 1829 and went out with the duke of Wellington 'in 1830. His opposition to the Reform See also:Bill caused his severance from the Whig leaders, and having joined the Tories he was elected, first for See also:Colchester and then in 1832 for See also:Norwich, for which borough he sat until the See also:dissolution of parliament. He was appointed,rlord See also:chief baron of the See also:exchequer in 1834, and presided in that court for more than nine years. While attending the See also:Norfolk circuit on the 2nd of See also:April he was suddenly seized with See also:apoplexy, and died in his lodgings at See also:Bury on the 7th of April 1844. He had been raised to the See also:peerage as Baron Abinger in 1835, taking his See also:title from the See also:Surrey See also:estate he had bought in 1813. The qualities which brought him success at the bar were not equally in See also:place on the bench; he was partial, dictatorial and vain; and complaint was made of his domineering attitude towards juries.

But his acuteness of mind and clearness of expression remained to the end. See also:

Lord Abinger was twice married (the second time only six months before his See also:death), and by his first wife (d. 1829) had three sons and two daughters, the title passing to his eldest son Robert (1794–1861). His second son, General See also:Sir James See also:Yorke Scarlett (1799-1871), See also:leader of the heavy See also:cavalry See also:charge at Balaclava, is dealt with in a See also:separate See also:article; and his See also:elder daughter, See also:Mary, married See also:John, Baron See also:Campbell, and was herself created Baroness Stratheden (See also:Lady Stratheden and Campbell) (d. 186o). Sir See also:Philip Anglin Scarlett (d. 1831), Lord Abinger's younger See also:brother, was chief See also:justice of Jamaica. See P. C. Scarlett, Memoir of James, 1st Lord Abinger (1897); See also:Foss's Lives of the See also:Judges; E. See also:Manson, Builders of our See also:Law (1904).

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