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DENMAN, THOMAS, 1ST BARON (1779-1854) , English judge, was born in London, the son of a well-known physician, on the 23rd of July 1779. He was educated at Eton
Cambridge , where he graduated in 1800. Soon after leaving Cambridge he married; and in 18o6 he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, and at once entered upon practice. His success was rapid, and in a few years he attained a position at the bar second only to that of Brougham and Scarlett (Lord Abinger). He distinguished himself by his eloquent defence of the Luddites
appearance was as one of the counsel for Queen Caroline. His speech before the Lords was very powerful, and some competent judges even considered it not inferior to Brougham's. It contained one or two daring passages, which made the king his bitter enemy, and retarded his legal promotion. At the general election of 1818 he was returned M.P. for Wareham, and at once took his seat with the Whig opposition. In the following year he was returned for Nottingham, for which place he continued to sit till his elevation
corporation of London. In 1830 he was made attorney-general under Lord Grey's administration. Two years later he was made lord chief
chief
The HoN. GEORGE DENMAN (1819-1896), his fourth son, was also a distinguished lawyer, and a judge of the Queen's Bench from 1872 till his death in 1896. See Memoir of Thomas
Manson
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