John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly

John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly

John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly PC Kt QC (* 10. January 1802 , † 23. December 1874 ) was a British politician of the Liberal Party and a lawyer , who for several years deputy in the House of Commons , Solicitor General and Attorney General was and from 1851 to 1873 as Master of the Rolls held the second highest judge's office in the English legal system. In 1866 he was raised to the hereditary nobility as Baron Romilly and was a member of the House of Lords until his death .

Life

Attorney, MP and Solcitor General

Romilly, whose father Samuel Romilly also several years lower house deputy and from 1806 to 1807 also Solicitor General was completed after school to study law at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge and took after the lawyer's approval to the Bar Association ( Inns of Court ) from Gray's Inn began working as a barrister in 1827 .

On December 10, 1832, he was elected as a candidate for the Liberal Party for the first time to the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Bridport until January 6, 1835 . Romilly, who for his lawyer's merits in 1843 the Attorney-General (Queen's Counsel) was appointed, was on July 7, 1846 constituency Bridport again elected to the House of Representatives before he followed in the constituency on July 29, 1847 Devonport was elected a member of the House of Commons and represented this constituency until July 7, 1852.

During this time he was David Dundas's successor between 1848 and his replacement by Alexander Cockburn in 1850 as Solicitor General one of the most important legal advisers to the government of Prime Minister John Russell . As such, he was beaten to a Knight Bachelor's degree in 1848 and from then on carried the suffix "Sir".

Attorney General, Master of the Rolls and Chamber of Lords

1850 he succeeded John Jervis as Attorney General ( Attorney General ) in the cabinet of John Russell and held this position until his times but replacement by Alexander Cockburn. 1851

Most recently, in 1851, he succeeded Henry Bickersteth, 1st Baron Langdale, as Master of the Rolls and thus as chairman of the civil senate of the Court of Appeal. He held the second highest judicial office in the English legal system after the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales for 22 years until 1873 . His successor as Master of the Rolls was George Jessel in 1873 . In 1851 he also became a Privy Counselor .

By a letters patent from January 3, 1866 he was raised as a peer with the title Baron Romilly , of Barry in the County of Glamorgan, in the hereditary nobility and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death.

In 1833 Romilly married Caroline Charlotte Otter, daughter of William Otter , who was Bishop of Chichester between 1836 and 1840 . This marriage produced eight children, including the eldest son William Romilly , who followed him in 1874 as 2nd Baron Romilly.

His younger brother Frederick Romilly was also politically active and represented the Canterbury constituency from 1850 to 1852 as a member of the House of Commons.

Web links

• John Romilly at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly, on thepeerage.com , accessed August 18, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Baron Romilly 1866-1874	William Romilly