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LORD CHIEF JUSTICE DENMAN.

JAMES COCKROFT & C

LIFE

OF

THOMAS, FIRST LORD DENMAN

FORMERLY

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND

BY

SIR JOSEPH ARNOULD

LATE JUDGE OF THE HIGH COURT OF BOMBAY

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. II.

BOSTON :

ESTES & LAURIAT,

143 WASHINGTON STREET.

1874.

Denman on Norfolk Circuit, Spring Assizes, 1834, I.

Raised to the Peer

age as Baron Denman of Dovedale, I. Immediate cause of his eleva-

tion, I. Correspondence: Lord G ey to Denman, March 19, 1834, 2.

Denman to Lord Grey, March 20, 2. Lord Grey's second letter, March 21,

3. Denman's reply, March 22, 3. Correspondence between Brougham and

Lady Denman in town, March 22, 4. Denman's letter to his wife from

Bury St. Edmunds, March 22, 4. From Norwich, March 23 and 26, 5.

Coke of Holkham in his eighty-second year, 5. Denman to his third

daughter, “Dear and Honorable Fanny," while waiting to be introduced

into the House of Lords, 6. Kindness of his brother judges, 6. Civility

of the Peers, 6. Margery Coke at two years, 7. Denman gratified at his

peerage, 7. Apprehensions of some of his friends, 7. His want of

wealth and of provident habits rendered the step doubtful, 7.
His case

an argument for life peerages, 8. His health suffered from the additional

work of the House of Lords, 8. Removal from Russell Square to Port-

land Place, 8. Extract from letter to Mrs. Wright, written in library of

House of Lords, 8. Denman's estimate of his own character and career,

9. How "the King's cheese goes in parings," 9. Political changes in

1834, 9. Resignation of Lord Grey, 9. Of Lord Melbourne and all the

Whig ministry, 9. Short dictatorship of the Duke of Wellington, 9.

Denman holds the seal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer from Novem-

ber 28 to December 10, when Sir Robert Peel is appointed to the office, 9.

Note from Duke of Wellington of November 27, 1834, explaining this

10. Denman's second son, Joseph, appointed by Lord Auckland, just be

fore the Whigs go out, to the "Curlew," 10. First reformed Parliament

dissolved, December 20, 1834, 10. New Parliament meets, February 19

1835, 10. Letter from Guildhall to Mrs. Wright, February 26, 10. Heavy

entry, II. Late sittings, II. Destruction of the monster "Arrear," II.

Sir F. Pollock to the jury, 11. Reception of King and Ministry on Feb-

ruary 9, 11. Brougham and Lyndhurst in the Lords, II. Unpleasant

prospects for Lyndhurst, 12.