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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 14: first weeks in London.—June and July, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
all possible change of posture to wear away the time. The Attorney-General told me that it would be thought quite indecorous in either of them to interfere by saying a word. You have asked about the characters of judges. I should not omit that of the Lord Chancellor. Charles Christopher Pepys, 1781-1851. He became Solicitor-General in 1833, Master of Rolls in 1834, Lord Chancellor in 1836, and a peer with the title of Baron Cottenham. He held the seal, with a brief interval, until June, 1850, when he resigned; having the same month been advanced in the peerage to the title of Viscount Crowhurst and Earl of Cottenham. He died in Italy, while travelling in the hope of regaining his health which had been broken by the too great labors of his office. See account of his appointment in preference to Brougham in Campbell's Life of Lord Brougham, Chap. VI.; Greville's Memoirs, Chap. XXX., Jan. 20, 1836. He did not once open his lips, I think, from the beginning to the end of the h