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HATHERLEY, See also:WILLIAM See also:PAGE See also:WOOD, 1ST See also:BARON (18or-1881) , See also:lord See also:chancellor of See also:Great See also:Britain, son of See also:Sir See also:Matthew Wood, a See also:London See also:alderman and lord See also:mayor who became famous for befriending See also:Queen See also:Caroline and braving See also:George IV., was See also:born in London on the 29th of See also:November 18or. He was educated at See also:Winchester, See also:Geneva University, and Trinity See also:College, See also:Cam-See also:bridge, where he became a See also:fellow after being 24th wrangler in 1824. He entered See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn, and was called to the See also:bar in 1824, studying See also:conveyancing in Mr See also:John See also:Tyrrell's See also:chambers. He soon obtained a See also:good practice as an See also:equity draughtsman and before See also:parliamentary committees, and in 1830 married See also:Miss See also:Charlotte See also:Moor. In 1845 he became Q.C., and in 1847 was elected to See also:parliament for the See also:city of See also:Oxford as a Liberal. In 1849 he was appointed See also:vice-chancellor of the See also:county palatine_ of See also:Lancaster, and in 1851 was made See also:solicitor-See also:general and knighted, vacating that position in 1852. When his party returned to See also:power in 1853, he was raised to the See also:bench as a vice-chancellor. In 1868 he was made a lord See also:justice of See also:appeal, but before the end of the See also:year was selected by Mr See also:Gladstone to be lord chancellor, and was raised to the See also:peerage as Lord Hatherley of Down Hatherley. He retired in 1872 owing to failing eyesight, but sat occasionally as a See also:law lord. His wife's See also:death in 1878 was a great See also:blow, from which he never recovered, and he died in London on the loth of See also:July 188,. See also:Dean See also:Hook said that Lord Hatherley —who was a See also:sound and benevolent supporter of the See also:Church of See also:England—was the best See also:man he had ever known. He was a particularly clear-headed lawyer, and his judgments—always delivered extempore—commanded the greatest confidence both with the public and the legal profession.

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