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See also:ASHBURTON, See also:JOHN DUNNING, 1ST See also:BARON]. (1731-1783), See also:English lawyer, the second son of John Dunning of Ashburton, See also:Devonshire, an See also:attorney, was See also:born at Ashburton on the 18th of See also:October 1731, and was educated at the See also:free See also:grammar school of his native See also:place. At first articled to his See also:father, he was admitted, at the See also:age of nineteen, to the See also:Middle See also:Temple, and called to the See also:bar in 1756, where he came very slowly into practice. He went the western See also:circuit for several years without receiving a single brief. In 1762 he was employed to draw up a See also:defence of the See also:British See also:East See also:India See also:Company against the Dutch East India Company, which had memorialized the See also:crown on certain grievances, and the masterly See also:style which characterized the document procured him at once reputation and emolument. In 1763 he distinguished himself as counsel on the See also:side of Wilkes, whose cause he conducted throughout. His powerful See also:argument against the validity of See also:general warrants in the See also:case of Leach v. See also:Money (See also:June 18, 1763) established his reputation, and his practice from that See also:period--gradually increased to such an extent that in 1776 he is said to have been in the See also:receipt of nearly £1o,000 per annum. In 1766 he was chosen See also:recorder of See also:Bristol, and in See also:December 1767 he was appointed See also:solicitor-general. The latter See also:appointment he held till May 1770, when he retired with his friend See also:Lord Shelburne. In 1971 he was presented with the freedom of the See also:city of See also:London. From this period he was considered as a See also:regular member of the opposition, and distinguished himself by many able speeches in See also:parliament. He was first chosen member for See also:Calne in 1768, and continued to represent that See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough until he was promoted to the See also:peerage. In 178o he brought forward a See also:motion that the " See also:influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished," which he carried by a See also:majority of eighteen. He strongly opposed the See also:system of See also:sinecure See also:officers and See also:pensions; but his probity was not strong enough to prevent his taking See also:advantage of it himself. In 1782, when the See also:marquis of Rocking-See also:ham became See also:prime See also:minister, Dunning was appointed See also:chancellor of the duchy of See also:Lancaster, a See also:rich sinecure; and about the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he was advanced to the peerage, with the See also:title of Lord Ashburton. Under Lord Shelburne's See also:administration he accepted a See also:pension of £4000 a See also:year. He died at See also:Exmouth on the 18th of See also:August 1783. Though possessed of ail insignificant See also:person, an awkward manner and a provincial See also:accent, Lord Ashburton was one of the most fluent and persuasive orators of his time. He had married See also:Elizabeth See also:Baring, and was succeeded as 2nd baron by his son See also:Richard, at whose See also:death in 1823 the title became See also:extinct, being revived in 1835 by See also:Alexander Baring.
Besides the See also:answer to the Dutch memorial, Lord Ashburton is supposed to have assisted in See also:writing a pamphlet on the See also:law of See also:libel, and to have been the author of A See also:Letter to the Proprietors of East India Stock, on the subject of Lord See also:Clive's Jaghire, occasioned by his Lordship's Letter on that Subject (1764, 8vo). He was at one time suspected of being the author of the Letters of See also:Junius.
1 i.e. of the first creation; for the See also:present title see above.
End of Article: ASHBURTON, JOHN DUNNING, 1ST
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