an English judge. Though nominated for King's College, Cambridge, he did not go up to the university, and was admitted to Gray's Inn on 12 November 1783. After practising some time as a special pleader, he was called to the bar on 22 June 1792, and went the home circuit. In 1799 he became a serjeant-at-law, and was for some time recorder of Maidstone. In May 1808 he was made a judge of the King's Bench, in the place of Sir Soulden Lawrence, and was knighted on the 11th of the same month.
‘A Short Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Cash Bills, and Promissory Notes,’ 1789, 8vo. *‘Lord Raymond's Reports and Entries in the King's Bench and Common Pleas in the Reigns of William, Anne, George I and II,’ 4th edit...
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‘A Short Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Cash Bills, and Promissory Notes,’ 1789, 8vo. *‘Lord Raymond's Reports and Entries in the King's Bench and Common Pleas in the Reigns of William, Anne, George I and II,’ 4th edition, 1790, 8vo.
‘The Book of Common Prayer, with Notes on the Epistles,’ 1813, 8vo.
‘The Prophecies of Christ and Christian Times, selected from the Old and New Testament, and arranged according to the periods in which they were pronounced,’ by a Layman, edited by Rev. H. Clissold, 1828, 8vo.
