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KENYON, LLOYD KENYON, 1ST BARON (1732-1802)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 749 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JUN-KHA
KENYON, LLOYD KENYON, 1ST BARON (1732-1802) , lord
chief
 -justice of England, was descended by his father's side from an old Lancashire family; his mother was the daughter of a small proprietor in Wales. He was born at Gredington, Flintshire, on the 5th of October 1732. Educated at Ruthin grammar school, he was in his fifteenth year articled to an attorney at Nantwich, Cheshire. In 1750 he entered at Lincoln's Inn; London, and in 1756 was called to the bar. As for several years he was almost unemployed, he utilized his leisure in taking notes of the cases argued in the court of King's Bench, which he after-wards published. Through answering the cases of his friend John Dunning, afterwards Lord
Ashburton
 , he gradually became known to the attorneys, after which his success was so rapid that in 1780 he was made king's counsel. He showed conspicuous ability in the cross-examination of the witnesses at the trial of Lord George Gordon, but his speech was so tactless that the verdict of acquittal was really due to the brilliant effort of Erskine, the junior counsel. This want of tact, indeed, often betrayed
Kenyon
  into striking blunders; as an advocate he was,
moreover, deficient in ability of statement; and his position was achieved chiefly by hard
work
 , a good knowledge of law and several lucky friendships. Through the influence of Lord Thurlow,
Kenyon
  in 1780 entered the
House
  of Commons as member for Hindon, and in 1782 he was, through the same friend-ship, appointed attorney-general in Lord Buckingham's administration, an office which he continued to hold under Pitt. In 1784 he received the mastership of the rolls, and was created a baronet. In 1788 he was appointed lord
chief
  justice as successor to Lord Mansfield, and the same year was raised to the peerage as Baron Kenyon of Gredington. As he had made many enemies, his
elevation
  was by no means popular with the bar; but on the bench, in spite of his capricious and choleric temper, he proved himself not only an able lawyer, but a judge of rare and inflexible impartiality. He died at Bath, on the 4th of April 1802. Kenyon was succeeded as 2nd baron by his son George (1776-18s5), whose
great
 -grandson, Lloyd (b. 1864), became the 4th baron in 1868.
See Life by Hon. G. T. Kenyon, 1873.


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