Admitted 5 April, 1705.
Third son of John Auchmuty, of Newtown, co. Longford, Ireland. He was educated in Dublin, but after his call to the Bar on 23 Nov. 1711, settled in Boston (U.S.A.). There he became, in 1733, a Judge in the Admiralty Court of the district, and held the post until 1747. In 1741 he was deputed to proceed to England to settle the dispute respecting the boundary line of Massachussetts and Rhode Island, and while there he conceived the plan for adding Cape Breton and Louisburg to the Colonies. He died April, 1750.
Judge Auchmuty was the grandfather of Sir Samuel Auchmuty, the distinguished Indian General. He was the author of a pamphlet entitled. The Importance of Cape Breton to the British Nation (1745).
AUCKLAND, BARON. See EDEN, WILLIAM.
Admitted 3 February, 1823.
Second son of Jonathan Austin, of Mile End, and brother of John Austin, the celebrated Jurist. He had a brilliant career at Cambridge, and at the Middle Temple he read in the chambers of Sir William Follett. He was called to the Bar 25 May, 1827, and twenty years later was appointed Reader at the Inn. In 1841 he was made Queen's Counsel and obtained unprecedented success at the Parliamentary Bar. He was, however, equally celebrated as a scholar and brilliant conversationalist, and having acquired a large fortune, he retired from professional work in 1848, and till his death in 1874 lived the quiet life of an English country gentleman in Suffolk. During his life he contributed much to the Parliamentary Retrospective and Westminster Reviews, but left no published works behind him. He was one of a brilliant group of intellectual giants, which included Macaulay, Mill, Praed (q.v.), Romilly, Cockburn (q.v.) and Moultrie (q.v.). The last named wrote of him:
"No keener in it.
No intellect more subtle, none more bold
Was found in all our host."
and J. S. Mill speaks of him as "the really influential mind amongst these gladiators."
AVONMORE, VISCOUNT. See YELVERTON, BARRY.
Admitted 11 November, 1817.
Eldest son of John Awdry, of the Middle Temple and of Notton House, Wilts. He was educated at Winchester and Oxford, where he graduated in 1818. He was called to the Bar 22 Nov. 1822. In 1830 he was made a Judge in Bombay and knighted, and in 1839 raised to the Chief Justiceship. He retired three years later and became a Magistrate and Chairman of Quarter Sessions in Wiltshire. The University of Oxford conferred on him the honorary degree of D.C.L. in 1844. He died at Notton House, 31 May, 1878.
