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Adm. pens. (age 16) at PETERHOUSE, May 4, 1767. [4th] s. of Edmund (1720), Master of Peterhouse. [According to a local tradition he was born, Nov. 7, 1750, in a cottage at Ellenborough while his mother was on a journey to her old home at Ewanrigg.] Bapt. Dec. 13, 1750, at Gt Selkeld, Cumberland. Schools, Bury and Charterhouse. ' Matric. Michs. 1767; Scholar, 1767; B.A. (3rd Wrangler) 1771; 1st Chancellor's medal, 1771; Members' prize, 1772 and 1773; M.A. 1774. Fellow, 1771-89. Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, June 10, 1769; migrated to the Inner Temple, Nov. 18, 1782; Reader, 1794; Treasurer, 1795. Special Pleader, 1775-80. Called to the Bar, 1780. K.C., 1787. King's Attorney and Serjeant within the County Palatine of Lancaster, 1793-1802. Attorney-General, 1801. M.P. for Newton, Isle of Wight, 1801-2. Knighted, 1801. Lord Chief Justice, 1802-18. Created Baron Ellenborough of Ellenborough, 1802. Privy Councillor, 1802. Speaker of the House of Lords, 1805. Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1806. Councillor to the Queen, 1811. An Official Trustee of the British Museum, 1801-18, F.S.A. Chief counsel for Warren Hastings. Opposed all efforts to reform the criminal code. Married, Oct. 17, 1789, Anne, dau. of George Phillips Towry. Died Dec. 13, 1818, in London, a month after his retirement from 16 years of office. Brother of Edmund (1756), Edmund (1775), George H. (1776), etc.; father of the next, William T. (1831), Charles E. (1810) and Henry S. (1819). (T. A. Walker, 329; D.N.B.; Inns of Court; Doyle, Official Baronage of England; Burke, P. and B.; G.E.C.; De Morgan, Budget of Paradoxes; Sir Wasey Sterry.)