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NORTHINGTON, ROBERT HENLEY, 1ST EARL of (c. 1708-1772), lord chancellor of England, was the second son of Anthony Henley, a member of a well-to-do family in Hampshire , who was a Whig member of parliament , and a well-known wit and writer. Robert was educated at Westminster school and St John's College, Oxford; and after gaining a fellowship at All Souls he was called to the bar in 1732. In 1747 he was elected member of parliament for Bath, of which borough he became recorder in 1751. He acquired a lucrative practice at the bar, and in 1756 was appointed attorney-general. In the following year he was promoted to the office of lord keeper of the great
House
faction , known as the Leicester House
Earl
Ferrers for murder in 176o that he then received his patent. On the accession of George III. the office of lord chancellor was conferred on Henley, and in 1764 he was created Viscount Henley and earl
Northington
Northington
Hampshire on the 14th of January 1772. He married, in 1743, Jane, daughter of Sir John Huband of Ipsley, Warwickshire, by whom he had three sons and five daughters. His youngest daughter, Elizabeth, married Morton Eden, who in 1799 was created Baron Henley in the peerage of Ireland; and her grandson, the 3rd Baron Henley of this creation, was in 1885 created earl of Northington.Lord Chancellor Northington was in his youth a man of convivial and boisterous manners, much addicted to swearing. Horace Walpole commented on his undignified bearing at the trial of Lord Ferrers ; but Lord Eldon considered him " a great
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