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    tadffitt * aft * 4 iWe # Gf * Tie e « tueatio « of Lord ( &k ^ 4 v ^ m hB ^ m ^ t th ^ Gmm ^ ifffir SAiWI'tf' ^ SxieJter , un 4 er the learned tat i ^ farTtiflB&tfc Dr .- HsHoran-, and frorii bfe fcsrK&stf yotatb the law seems to have engaged the chigf attention of his mirnl ; bo much so , indeed , that ,

    even whilst yet a schoolboy , it was his habit , when the Judges , in the course of their eiwnrit , came to Exeter , to take his seat in the Court , and remain there till the close of the day ' s business , and so during the continuance of the asst 2 es . Having" finished his

    education , he entered on his legal career by being articled to arc attorney of Ms native city , and Whilst in this comparatively adverse station , tised to cbmplain of the neglect he experienced from his kinsman and relation , the late Sir Vicaty Gibbs . In the year 1800 , he cainfe to London , and was at

    fhat time adinitted a tnember of the Middle Temple , and studied in the office of Mr . Sykes , the present solicitor of the Stain j > effiee , Who was then practising as ft special pleader . At this time his age was 21 . On the I 2 th

    of February , 1808 , he was called to the bar . From this time Sir Vicary Gibbs began to notice him , and it was to the patronage and steady affection of this great lawyer that Lord Gifford owed bis first elevation in the legal world : and his own abilities

    afterwards enabled him to advance his fortunes so far , that he became successively Solicitor and Attorney-General , a peer of the realm , Lord Chief Justiceof the Common Pleas , and finally Master of the RWls , in which elevated station lie has just ekteed his mortal

    career . On the 8 fh 6 f May , 1817 , h <* was appointed Solicitor-General , and ra that capacity , on the 16 th of May following , was elected Master of the Stench , © f the society of which he was a roenabeh In consequence of his to the of Lo

    ^ Ppomtment office rd J-hief Justice of the Common Pleas , ne was made a Serg-eant on the 16 th ° [ ^ une , 1824 , and from thence was ? l most immediately advanced to be p aster of the Rolk , in bonsedueo ^ xtf " « death of the late Sir Tltfttms Pluy . xxt . 4 x

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    m ^ , whom befeueeeeded , so that Lord & % mt $ ln » g iiW itel& his office much above Uvo years . Petir ^ id twenty years Irave served to raise this gentleman to the highest honours of feis profession , aisci Ms <^ lreer , ffiou ^ h short ,

    eeems to have been one of tinexampted splendour . liord Gifibrd was only 47 years old when he died , and it seldom fells to the lot of any man to go through the iiaportaiu offices that he has done hi the short period of 24

    years . ** On the 28 th of January , 182 R , < while Lord Chief Justice , ) he was , by letters-patent under the Great Seal , ennobled ' by the name , style and title

    of Baron GHFord , of Saint Leonard , in the county of Devon / the patent being- in favour * of himself ' and the heirs male of his body lawfully l > egofcten . '

    * At the commencement of the Session of Parliament , 1824 , his Lordship was appointed Lord Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords , in wlrirfi character his Lordship , during' the three

    last sessions , devoted himself most assiduously to the hearing of appeals and writs of error , on thoSe days in which the Lord Chancellor was engaged in the duties of the Court -of Chaneertf .

    " Lord Gifford was not less strenuous in his exertions to get through the great number of causes before the Frivy Council , it bring considered as one of the duties of the Master of the Rolls to preside at the hearing of such

    appeals ; and no one that ever before filled that situation was more regular in attendance at the Cockpit . " The newspapers have also amused their readers with a parallel between Lord Gifford and Lord Chancellor

    King , as follows : " The parallel between Lord Gifford , just deceased , and Lord Chancellor King , who died in the reign of George II ., is singular . Roth were natives of the same place , Exeter ; both the sons

    of grocers there . Each was put into the way of arriving at legal dignities by chance , from a birth and station in life equally humble and obscure . One arose to the Chancellorship , and the other was marked out tot that station ^ had helivdd ; and , finally , in the dates of their birth there was a remarkable coincidence , Lord King'being !> Mli in the year 1669 , and Lord Gifford in 1779 . A love for learning enabled

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 709, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/9/