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TENTERDEN, CHARLES ABBOTT

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TENTERDEN, See also:CHARLES See also:ABBOTT , 1st See also:BARON (1762-1832), See also:lord See also:chief See also:justice of See also:England, was See also:born at See also:Canterbury on the 7th of See also:October 1762, his See also:father having been a hairdresser and wigmaker of the See also:town. He was educated at Canterbury See also:King's School and Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:Oxford, of which he after-wards became See also:fellow and See also:tutor. On the See also:advice of Mr Justice See also:Buller (1746-1800), to whose son he had been tutor, he deter-See also:mined on the legal profession, and entered at the See also:Middle Templein 1787. For several years he practised as a See also:special pleader under the See also:bar, and was finally called at the Inner See also:Temple in 1996. He joined the Oxford See also:circuit and soon made rapid See also:head-way. In 18oi he was appointed See also:recorder of Oxford. In 1802 appeared his See also:Law relative to See also:Merchant See also:Ships and See also:Seamen, a concise and excellent See also:treatise, which has maintained its position as an authoritative See also:work. Its publication brought to him so much commercial and other work that in 1808 he was in a position to refuse a seat on the See also:bench; this, however, he accepted in 1816, being made a See also:judge of the See also:court of See also:common pleas. On the resignation of Lord See also:Ellenborough in 1818 he was promoted to the chief justiceship of the king's bench. In his capacity as chief justice he presided over several important See also:state trials, notably that of See also:Arthur See also:Thistlewood and the See also:Cato See also:Street conspirators (1820). He was raised to the See also:peerage in 1827 as Baron Tenterden of See also:Hendon. Never a See also:great lawyer and with no pretence to eloquence, Tenterden made his way by See also:sound common sense and steady hard. work.

He was an uncompromising Tory, and had no sympathy with the reform of the criminal law carried out by See also:

Romilly; while he strongly opposed the See also:Catholic See also:Relief See also:Bill and the Reform Bill. He died on the 4th of See also:November 1832, and was buried, by his own See also:desire, in the Foundling See also:Hospital, See also:London, of which he was a See also:governor. Tenterden was succeeded in his See also:title by his son, See also:John See also:Henry Abbott (1796-1870), then by his See also:grandson, Charles See also:Stuart See also:Aubrey Abbott (1834-1882), permanent under-secretary for See also:foreign affairs, who was made a K.C.B. in 1878. In 1882 the latter's son, Charles Stuart Henry Abbott (b.

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