A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Archibald, Sir Thomas Dickson

3460149A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices — Archibald, Sir Thomas DicksonJohn Hutchinson

ARCHIBALD, Sir THOMAS DICKSON.
Judge.
1817—1876.

Admitted 11 November, 1840.

Third son of the Hon. Samuel George William Archibald, LL.D., Attorney-General of Nova Scotia, where he was born in 1817. At the Temple he was a pupil of Serjeant Petersdorff, whom he assisted in his well-known Abridgment. He was called to the Bar 30 Jan. 1852, and in 1868 became Junior Counsel to the Treasury. In 1872 he succeeded Mr. Justice Hannen (q.v.) as a Justice of the Queen's Bench, and at the same time became a Serjeant. In the following year he was knighted, and two years later transferred to the Court of Common Pleas. He died 18 Oct. 1876. He was joint compiler of the Digest to the Law Times Reports, 1840—1845.