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Adm. pens. (age 18) at JESUS, Oct. 22, 1813. S. of Henry, Esq., of Brougham Hall, Westmorland. B. [Sept. 26, 1795] at Edinburgh. School, Edinburgh High (Dr Adam). ' Matric. Lent, 1815; Scholar and Exhibitioner, 1818; B.A. 1819; M.A. 1822. Fellow, 1821-34. Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, May 4, 1820. Called to the Bar, 1823. A Commissioner of public records. M.P. for Southwark, 1831-4. A Master in Chancery, 1835-52. Succeeded his brother Henry, as 2nd Baron Brougham and Vaux, of Brougham, and of Highhead Castle, Cumberland, May 7, 1868. J.P. for Cumberland and Westmorland. D.L. for Westmorland. Married Emily Frances, dau. of Sir Charles William Taylor, Bart., of Hollycombe, Sussex, Aug. 12, 1834. Died Jan. 3, 1886, at Brougham Hall. Father of Henry C. (1854). (G.E.C., ed. Gibbs; Foster, Men at the Bar; D.N.B.)