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DAVEY OF FERNHURST, See also:

HORACE DAVEY, See also:BARON (1833—1907) , See also:English See also:judge, son of See also:Peter Davey, of See also:Horton, Bucks, was See also:born on the 30th of See also:August 1833, and educated at See also:Rugby and University See also:College, See also:Oxford. He took a See also:double first-class in See also:classics and See also:mathematics, was See also:senior mathematical See also:scholar and See also:Eldon See also:law scholar, and was elected a See also:fellow of his college. In 1861 he was called to the See also:Bar at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn, and read in the See also:chambers of Mr (afterwards See also:Vice-See also:Chancellor) Wickens. Devoting himself to the See also:Chancery See also:side, he soon acquired a large practice, and in 1875 became a Q.C. In 1880 he was returned to See also:parliament as a Liberal for See also:Christchurch, Hants, but lost his seat in 1885. On See also:Gladstone's return to See also:power in 1886 he was appointed See also:solicitor-See also:general and was knighted, but had no seat in the See also:House, being defeated at both See also:Ipswich and See also:Stockport in 1886; in 1888 he found a seat at See also:Stockton-on-See also:Tees, but was rejected by that See also:constituency in 1892. As an See also:equity lawyer See also:Sir Horace Davey ranked among the finest intellects and the most subtle pleaders ever known at the English bar. He was See also:standing counsel to the university of Oxford, and senior counsel to the Charity Commissioners, and was engaged in all the important Chancery suits of his See also:time. Among the See also:chief leading cases in which he took a. prominent See also:part were those of The See also:Mogul Steamship See also:Company v. M'Gregor, 1892, See also:Boswell v. Coaks, 1884, Erlanger v. New See also:Sombrero Company, 1878, and the Ooregum See also:Gold Mines Company v.

Roper, 1892; he was counsel for the promoters in the trial of the See also:

bishop of Lincoln, and leading counsel in the See also:Berkeley See also:peerage See also:case. In 1862 he married See also:Miss Louisa See also:Donkin, who, with two sons and four daughters, survived him. In 1893 he was raised to the See also:bench as a See also:lord See also:justice of See also:appeal, and in the next See also:year was made a lord of appeal in See also:ordinary and a See also:life peer. He died in See also:London on the loth of See also:February 1907. Lord Davey's See also:great legal knowledge was displayed in his judgments no less than at the bar. In legislation he took no conspicuous part, but he was a keen See also:promoter of the See also:act passed in 1906 for the checking of gambling.

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