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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 18: Stratford-on-avon.—Warwick.—London.—Characters of judges and lawyers.—authors.—society.—January, 1839, to March, 1839.—Age, 28. (search)
Baron's. Alderson has a good deal of dry humor. It was he who said, on Brougham being made Lord Chancellor: If his Lordship knew a little law, he would know a little of every thing. Of the other two barons of the Exchequer I literally know nothing. Baron Gurney John Gurney, 1768-1845. He was called to the bar in 1793; assisted Erskine in the trials of Hardy and Horne Tooke; became, after a long training at the bar, a baron of the Exchequer in 1832, and resigned in 1845. His son, Russell Gurney, has been Recorder of London, and was, in 1871, a commissioner on behalf of Great Britain under the Treaty of Washington. is old, and appears infirm. I never meet him or hear of him in society. On the bench he is always silent, and indeed is dead weight. Baron Bolland William Bolland, 1772-1840. He was called to the bar in 1801, became a judge of the Exchequer in 1829, and resigned in 1839. He was more versed in common law than in other departments. He delighted in old books and