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See also: LYNDHURST, See also:JOHN SINGLETON See also:COPLEY, See also:BARON (1772–1863) , See also:lord See also:chancellor of See also:England, was See also:born at See also:Boston, See also:Massachusetts, in 1772. He was the son of John Singleton Copley, the painter. He was educated at a private school and See also:Cambridge university, where he was second wrangler and See also:fellow of Trinity. Called to the See also:bar at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn in 1804, he gained a consider-able practice. In 1817 he was one of the counsel for Dr J. See also:Watson, tried for his See also:share in the See also:Spa See also:Fields See also:riot. On this occasion Copley so distinguished himself as to attract the See also:attention of Castlereagh and other Tory leaders, under whose See also:patron-See also:age he entered See also:parliament as member for See also:Yarmouth in the Isle of See also:Wight. He afterwards sat for See also:Ashburton, 1818–1826, and for Cambridge university 1826–1827. He was See also:solicitor-See also:general in 1819, See also:attorney-general in 1824, See also:master of the rolls in 1826 and lord chancellor in 1827, with the See also:title of Lord Lyndhurst. Before being taken up by the Tories, Copley was a See also:man of the most advanced views, a republican and Jacobin; and his See also:accession to the Tories excited a See also:good See also:deal of comment, which he See also:bore with the greatest good See also:humour. He gave a brilliant and eloquent but by no means rancorous support to all the reactionary See also:measures of his See also:chief. The same See also:year that he became
They have been corrected and somewhat modified by Dr. J. E. See also: Cutler, from whose See also:book the figures above have been taken. Lynching as used in this connexion applies exclusively to the illegal infliction of See also:capital See also:punishment.
2 For See also:present purposes the former slave states (of 186o) constitute the See also:South; the See also:West is composed of the territory west of the See also:Mississippi See also:river, excluding See also:Missouri, See also:Arkansas, See also:Louisiana, See also:Texas and See also:Oklahoma; the See also:East includes those states east of the Mississippi river not included in the See also:Southern See also:group; the East and the West make up the See also:North as here used—that is, the former See also:free states of 186o.solicitor-general he married the beautiful and See also:clever widow of Lieut.-See also:Colonel See also:Charles See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas of the See also:Coldstream See also:Guards, and began to take a conspicuous See also:place in society, in which his See also:noble figure, his ready wit and his never-failing bonhomie made him a distinguished favourite.
As solicitor-general he took a prominent See also:part in the trial of See also:Queen See also:Caroline. To the See also:great Liberal measures which marked the end of the reign of See also:George IV. and the beginning of that of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William IV. he gave a vigorous opposition. He was lord chief baron of the See also:exchequer from 1831 to 1834. During the See also:Melbourne See also:administration from 1835 to 1841 he figured conspicuously as an obstructionist in the See also:House of Lords. In these years it was a frequent practice with him, before each See also:prorogation of parliament, to entertain the House with a " See also:review of the session," in which he mercilessly attacked the Whig See also:government. His former adversary Lord See also:Brougham, disgusted at his treatment by the Whig leaders, soon became his most powerful ally in opposition; and the two dominated the House of Lords. Throughout all the Tory governments from 1827 Lyndhurst held the chancellorship (1827–1830 and 1834–1835); and in the See also:Peel administration (1841–1846) he resumed that See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office for the last 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. As Peel never had much confidence in Lyndhurst, the latter did not exert so great an See also: influence in the See also:cabinet as his position and experience entitled him to do. But he continued a loyal member of the party. As in regard to See also:Catholic emancipation, so in the agitation against the See also:corn See also:laws, he opposed reform till his chief gave the See also:signal for concession, and then he cheerfully obeyed. After 1846 and the disintegration of the Tory party consequent on Peel's See also:adoption of free See also:trade, Lord Lyndhurst was not so assiduous in his attendance in parliament. Yet he continued to an extreme old age to take a lively See also:interest in public affairs, and occasionally to astonish the See also:country by the See also:power and brilliancy of his speeches. That which he made in the House of Lords on the 19th of See also:June 1854, on the See also:war with See also:Russia, made a sensation in See also:Europe; and throughout the See also:Crimean War he was a strong See also:advocate of the energetic See also:prosecution of hostilities. In 1859 he denounced with his old See also:energy the restless ambition of See also:Napoleon III. When released from office he came forward somewhat as the advocate of liberal measures. His first wife had died in 1834, and in See also:August 1837 he had married Georgina, daughter of See also:Lewis See also:Gold-See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
smith. She was a Jewess; and it was therefore natural that he strenuously supported the See also:admission of See also:Jews into parliament. He also advocated See also:women's rights in questions of See also:divorce. At the age of eighty-four he passed the autumn at See also:Dieppe, " helping to See also:fly See also:paper kites, and amusing himself by turns with the writings of the See also:Greek and Latin fathers on divorce and the amorous novels of See also:Eugene See also:Sue." His last speech, marked by " his wonted brilliancy and vigour," was delivered in the House of Lords at the age of eighty-nine. He died in See also: London on the 12th of See also:October 1863. He See also:left no male issue and the title became See also:extinct.
See Lives of the Lord Chancellors of England, vol. viii. (Lords Lyndhurst and Brougham), by Lord See also:- CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
- CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
- CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN
- CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
- CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
- CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
- CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)
Campbell (1869). Campbell was a See also:personal friend, but a See also:political opponent. Brougham's See also:Memoirs; Greville Memoirs; See also:Life of Lord Lyndhurst (1883) by See also:Sir See also:Theodore See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin; J. B. Atlay, The Victorian Chancellors (1906).
End of Article: LYNDHURST, JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, BARON (1772–1863)
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