French Laurence

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French Laurence (born April 3, 1757 , † February 27, 1809 ) was an English lawyer, politician and a close confidante of Edmund Burke , whose literary legacy he also administered. Laurence was the most influential civil politician of his time.

Life

French Laurence was the eldest son of watchmaker Richard Laurence from Bath , Somerset and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John French, a tailor from Warminster , Wiltshire . His younger brother Richard Laurence was Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford and Anglican Archbishop of Cashel from 1814 to 1822 . French visited the Winchester School at 1769 Joseph Warton and studied at Corpus Christi College of the University of Oxford , where he began teaching. He received his Bachelor of Arts on December 17, 1777 and his Master of Art on June 21, 1781. After leaving the university, he joined the Middle Temple Bar, believing that he had adopted common law . Instead, he devoted himself to civil law and was admitted to the College of Advocates on November 3, 1788, after obtaining the Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) on October 19, 1787 in Oxford .

While proving extremely useful to Burke in preparing for the attempted removal of the former Governor General of India, Warren Hastings , he remained an advisor with William Scott even after the 1788 dismissal refusal . He himself only played an observing role in the events at Westminster Hall , but advised in the background. His own law practice in the church jurisdiction and the Admiralty Courts but quickly grew from that time. He maintained his intimate relationship with Burke until his death and became the administrator for his literary work.

In 1776 he was appointed Regius Professor of Civil Law in succession to Thomas Francis Wenman with the support of William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck . In the same year he was elected to the House of Commons for the constituency of Peterborough , supported by Burke and William Fitzwilliam .

His speeches in parliament always followed Burk's guidelines, except in matters of international law . In opposing union with Ireland , he insisted that if Burke were alive, he would do the same. Laurence became a member of a committee set up in 1806 to prepare the indictment against Henry Dundas , the last case of its kind. He became Chancellor of the Diocese of Oxford and Judge in the Admiralty Courts of the Cinque Ports .

He died unexpectedly on February 26, 1809 while visiting his brother in Eltham , Kent, and was buried in Eltham Church, where a marble plaque was placed in his memory. Laurence never married. He spent his free time either in company, he was a member of the Eumélean Club, or with writing.

Literary work

While studying law, Laurence wrote political ballads in support of Charles James Fox's candidacy for Westminster in 1784. He co- authored Rolliad , a satirical work on politics, to both of which he contributed.

His letters to Burk were published by his brothers in 1827 under the title The Epistolary Correspondence of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke and Dr. French Laurence , published in London. His poetic estate was published together with that of his brother Richard in Dublin in 1872 and contained a few odes, a few sonnets and a few translations from Greek, Latin and Italian. Laurence was a frequent author of articles in Gentleman's Magazine . His attempts in theology appeared in 1810 as Critical Remarks on Detached Passages of the New Testament, particularly the Revelation of St. John at Oxford, edited by his brothers.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Members of Parliament ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved June 2, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leighrayment.com
  2. a b c d e f g h i j k l RG Thorne; Laurence, French 1757-1809 ; in History of Parliament, online. Retrieved June 2, 2014
  3. a b c d e f g h i j k l m James McMullen Rigg Laurence, French ; Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 32.
  4. ^ Richard Laurence in The unedited full-text of the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia ; Retrieved June 2, 2014.

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