Edward Sugden, 1st Baron St. Leonards

Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, 1st Baron St. Leonards

Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, 1st Baron St. Leonards ( February 12, 1781 - January 29, 1875 ) was a British lawyer and politician of the Tories and later the Conservative Party , who was a member of the House of Commons for a few years , 1834 and 1841 to 1846 Lord Chancellor of Ireland and 1852 Lord Chancellor .

Life

Early career

Sugden graduated from school with a law degree and took up a barrister after being admitted to the Lincoln's Inn in 1807 . In 1822 he was named "Bencher" of the Lincoln's Inn Bar Association for his legal services.

In 1828 Sugden was elected as a candidate for the Conservative Tories for the first time as a member of the House of Commons, where he initially represented the constituency of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis until 1831 and then the constituency of St Mawes until 1832 .

In 1829 he was appointed Solicitor General of England and Wales by Prime Minister Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington , to succeed Nicholas Conyngham Tindal and as such was Deputy Attorney General until his replacement by William Horne in November 1830 and thus one of the principal advisor to the Crown and the Government. At the same time he was beaten to Knight Bachelor in 1829 and from then on carried the suffix "Sir".

Lord Chancellor

Considerations on the rate of interest , 1816

As the successor to William Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket , Sugden, who became a member of the Privy Council of Great Britain in 1834 , was Lord Chancellor of Ireland for the first time in 1835 in the cabinet of Prime Minister Robert Peel and at the same time a member of the Privy Council of Ireland. After a short term in office, William Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket, succeeded him again in 1835 as Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

In 1837, Sugden was re-elected to the House of Commons for the Tories and represented the constituency of Ripon until 1841 . Subsequently, between August 1841 and June 1846, he again took over the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland in the cabinet of Prime Minister Robert Peel, succeeding John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell . In June 1846 Maziere Brady succeeded him in this office.

Prime Minister Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby , finally appointed Sugden on February 27, 1852 to succeed Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro , as Lord Chancellor of England and Wales (Lord Chancellor) . He held this office until the end of Derby's tenure on December 19, 1852 and the related replacement by Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth .

By a letters patent dated March 1, 1852, Sugden was raised as a hereditary peer with the title Baron Saint Leonards , of Slaugham in the County of Sussex , and thus belonged to the House of Lords until his death . At times he also served as High Steward of Kingston upon Thames .

From his marriage to Winifred Knapp on December 23, 1808, four Kunder emerged. However, since his only son died before him on December 20, 1866, his son Edward Burtenshaw Sugden inherited the title after the death of his grandfather of the same name on January 29, 1875.

Web links

• Edward Sugden at Hansard (English)
• Entry on cracroftspeerage.co.uk
• Entry in leighrayment.com
• Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, 1st Baron St. Leonards on thepeerage.com , accessed August 18, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Baron St. Leonards 1852–1875	Edward Burtenshaw Sugden
William Plunket	Lord Chancellor of Ireland 1835–1841	John Campbell