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See also:THURLOW, See also:EDWARD THURLOW, 1ST See also:BARON (1731-1806) ,
See also:English See also:lord See also:chancellor, was See also:born at Bracon Ash, in the See also:county of See also:Norfolk, on the 9th of See also:December 1731. He was the eldest son of the Rev. 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 Thurlow. He was educated at a private school and at the See also:grammar school of See also:Canterbury, where he was considered a bold, refractory, See also:clever boy. In 1748 Thurlow entered See also:Caius See also:College, See also:Cambridge, but an See also:act of insubordination necessitated his leaving Cambridge without a degree (1751). He was for some 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 articled to a See also:solicitor in See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn along with the poet See also:Cowper, but in 1754 was called to the See also:bar at the Inner See also:Temple, and subsequently went on the western See also:circuit—at first with little success. But in the See also:case of See also:Luke See also:- ROBINSON, EDWARD (1794–1863)
- ROBINSON, HENRY CRABB (1777–1867)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1575–1625)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1650-1723)
- ROBINSON, JOHN THOMAS ROMNEY (1792–1882)
- ROBINSON, MARY [" Perdita "] (1758–1800)
- ROBINSON, SIR JOHN BEVERLEY, BART
- ROBINSON, SIR JOSEPH BENJAMIN (1845– )
- ROBINSON, THEODORE (1852-1896)
Robinson v. The See also:Earl of See also:Winchelsea (1758) Thurlow came into
collision with See also:Sir See also:Fletcher See also:Norton, afterwards 1st Baron See also:Grantley (1716-1789), then the terror of solicitors and the See also:tyrant of the bar, and put down his arrogance with dignity and success. From this time his practice increased rapidly. In 1761 he was made a See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's counsel, through the See also:influence of the duchess of Queens-See also:berry. In 1762 he was elected a bencher of the Inner Temple. Thurlow now with some hesitation entered himself into the ranks of the Tory party. In 1768 he became member for See also:Tara-See also:worth. In 1769 the See also:Douglas See also:peerage case came on for See also:hearing in the See also:House of Lords, and Thurlow, who had See also:drawn the plead. ings some years before (Notes and Queries, 3rd See also:series, vol. iii, p. 122), led for the appellant in a speech of See also:great See also:analytic See also:power. In 1770, as a recognition of his See also:defence in the previous See also:January of the See also:expulsion of Wilkes, Thurlow was made solicitor-See also:general on the resignation of Dunning, and in the following See also:year, after he had enhanced his reputation with the See also:government by attacking the rights of juries in cases of See also:libel (Rex v. See also:Miller, 20 St. Tr. 87o-896) and the See also:liberty of the See also:press (16 Party. Hist. 1144), was raised to the See also:attorney-generalship. Thurlow's public See also:life was as factious as his youth had been daring. His hatred of the See also:American colonists, and his imprudent assertion that as attorney-general he might set aside by scire facial as forfeited every See also:charter in See also:America (debate on the American Prohibitory See also:Bill, 18 P.H. 999); his speech in See also:aggravation of See also:punishment in the case of See also:Horne See also:Tooke (20 St. Tr. 777-783), when he argued that the prisoner ought to be pilloried, because imprisonment was no See also:penalty to a See also:man of sedentary habits and a See also:fine would be paid by seditious subscription; and his opposition to all interference with the slave See also:trade—are characteristic. In 1778 Thurlow became lord chancellor and Baron Thurlow of Ashfield, and took his seat in the House of Lords, where he soon acquired an almost dictatorial power. He opposed the economical and constitutional reforms proposed by See also:Burke and Dunning. Under See also:Rockingham he clung to the chancellorship, while conducting himself like a See also:leader of the opposition. To the See also:short-lived See also:ministry of Shelburne he gave consistent support. Under the See also:coalition of See also:Fox and See also:North (See also:April to December 1783) the great See also:seal was placed in See also:commission, and Lord See also:Loughborough was made first See also:commissioner. But Thurlow, acting as the king's adviser, and in acccordance with his wishes, harassed the new ministry, and ultimately secured the rejection of Fox's See also:India Bill (24 P.H. 226). The coalition was at once dissolved. See also:Pitt accepted 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, and Thurlow again became lord chancellor (Dec. 23, 1783).
At first he supported the government, but soon his overbearing See also:temper asserted itself. Imprudently relying on the friendship of the king, and actuated by scarcely disguised enmity to Pitt, Thurlow passed rapidly from occasional acts of hostility to See also:secret disaffection, and finally to open revolt. He delivered himself strongly against a bill, introduced without his privity, for the restoration to the heirs of attainted owners of estates forfeited in the Jacobite See also:rebellion of 1745. Partly to please the king and See also:queen, partly from dislike to Burke, and partly perhaps from a real belief in the groundlessness of the See also:accusation, he supported See also:Warren See also:Hastings on every occasion " with indecorous violence." His negotiations with the Whigs during the discussion of the Regency Bill (1788-Feb. 19, 1789) were designed to secure his seat on the See also:woolsack in the event of Fox being called to power. The See also:climax was reached in 1792, when he attacked Pitt's bill " to establish a sinking fund for the redemption of the See also:national See also:debt," not on See also:account of the economic objections to which it was liable, but on the trivial ground that it was an unconstitutional See also:attempt to bind further parliaments. The bill was carried, but only by a narrow See also:majority, and Pitt, feeling that co-operation with such a colleague was impossible, insisted successfully on his dismissal (Julie 15, 1792). The ex-chancellor, who had a few days before been created Baron Thurlow of Thurlow, with See also:remainder to his See also:brothers and their male descendants, now retired into private life, and, with the exception of a futile intrigue, under the auspices of the See also:prince of See also:Wales, for the formation of a ministry from which Pitt and Fox should be excluded, and in which the earl of Moira should be premier and Thurlow chancellor (1797), finally
abandoned See also:hope of office. In 1795 he opposed the See also:Treason and See also:Sedition bills without success. In r8or he spoke on behalf of Horne Tooke—now his friend—when a bill was introduced to render a See also:priest in orders ineligible for a seat in the House of See also:Commons. His last recorded See also:appearance in the House of Lords was in 1802. He now spent his time between his See also:villa at See also:Dulwich and various seaside resorts. He died at See also:Brighton on the 12th of See also:September. 1806, and was buried in the Temple See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church. Thurlow was never married, but See also:left three natural daughters, for whom he made a handsome See also:provision. The See also:title descended to his See also:nephew, son of the See also:bishop of See also:Durham.
Lord Thurlow was a See also:master of a coarse See also:caustic wit, which habitually in his private and too frequently in his public life displayed itself in See also:profanity. He was a See also:good classical See also:scholar and made occasional See also:translations in See also:verse from See also:Homer and See also:Euripides. His judicial and his ecclesiastical patronage were wisely exercised; he was the See also:patron of Dr See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson and of See also:Crabbe, and was the first to detect the great legal merits of See also:Eldon. Thurlow's See also:personal appearance was striking. His dark complexion, harsh but See also:regular features, severe and dignified demeanour, piercing See also:black eyes and bushy eyebrows, doubtless contributed to his professional and See also:political See also:eminence and provoked the See also:sarcasm of Fox that he looked wiser than any man ever was. Yet he was far from being an impostor. By intense though irregular application he had acquired a wide if not a profound knowledge of See also:law. Clear-headed, self-confident and fluent, able at once to See also:reason temperately and to assert strongly, capable of grasping, rapidly assimilating, and forcibly reproducing See also:minute and complicated details, he possessed all the qualities which command success. His speeches in the trial of the duchess of See also:Kingston for See also:bigamy (20 St. Tr. 355–651) are vigorous and effective, while his famous opening in the Douglas peerage case and his See also:argument for the See also:Crown in 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 v. See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall (2o St. Tr. 312–316) show that he might have rendered high service to the judicial literature of his See also:country had he relied more upon his own See also:industry and less upon the learning of Hargrave and See also:Kenyon.
See Lord Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, vii. 153–333; See also:Foss's See also:Judges of See also:England, viii. 374–385; Public Characters (1798); Notes and Queries, 2nd series, vol. in. p. 283; 3rd series, vol. iii. p. 122; Reports of his decisions by See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown, See also:Dickens and Vesey (jun.) ; See also:Brougham's Statesmen of the Time of See also:George III. (A. W.
End of Article: THURLOW, EDWARD THURLOW, 1ST BARON (1731-1806)
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