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MONKSWELL, ROBERT PORRETT COLLIER

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MONKSWELL, See also:ROBERT PORRETT See also:COLLIER , 1st See also:BARON (1817—1886), See also:English See also:judge, was See also:born at See also:Plymouth, on the 21st of See also:June 1817, and was the son of a prominent See also:merchant of Quaker extraction. He was educated at See also:Oxford, was called to the See also:bar in 1843, and went the western See also:circuit. He obtained a high reputation by his successful See also:defence of Brazilian pirates in 1845; they were, indeed, convicted at the assizes, but Collier ultimately procured their See also:escape upon a point of See also:law which the judge had refused to reserve. He was elected member of See also:parliament for Plymouth in the Liberal See also:interest in 1852, and in 1859 was appointed counsel to the See also:admiralty and judge-See also:advocate to the See also:fleet. In this capacity he gave in 1862 an See also:opinion in favour of detaining the Confederate rams See also:building in the See also:Mersey, which would have saved his See also:country much See also:money and much See also:credit if it had been acted upon. In 1863 he became See also:solicitor-See also:general, and in 1868 See also:attorney-general, and in 1869 successfully passed a See also:bankruptcy See also:bill. In 1871 he was appointed by Mr See also:Gladstone one of four new See also:judges upon the judicial See also:committee of the privy See also:council, although it was expressly provided by the See also:act creating these offices that none of them should be filled by a law-officer of the See also:Crown. This See also:prohibition was evaded by making Collier a judge of See also:common pleas, and transferring him after a few days to the privy council. This arrangement was unanimously condemned by public opinion, and gave the Gladstone See also:cabinet a serious See also:blow. He officiated, nevertheless, with distinction until his See also:death on the 3rd of See also:November 1886, and was raised to the See also:peerage as Baron Monkswell in 1885. He was a See also:man of many accomplishments, and especially distinguished as an See also:amateur painter, frequently exhibiting landscapes at the Royal See also:Academy and elsewhere. In his younger days he had been noted as a See also:clever caricaturist.

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elder son, Robert (b. 1845), who, after taking a first class in law at See also:Cambridge, went to the bar, and became (1871) See also:conveyancing counsel to the See also:treasury, and (1885–1886) an See also:official examiner of the High See also:Court, and, taking to politics as a Liberal, under-secretary for See also:war (1895). The younger son, See also:John Collier (b. 185o), inherited his See also:father's See also:artistic tastes, and became a well-known painter.

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