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DENMAN 185 notice. C) Common Serjeant of London 1822-30; K.C. 1828; in Nov. 1830 (under the Grey Ministry) Attorney Gen., being knighted, 24 Nov. 1830; and in Nov. 1832, Chief [ustice of the King's Bench ;() P.C. 6 Nov. 1832; F.R.S. 20 Tune 1833. On 28 Mar. 1834, he was cr. BARON DENMAN OF DO'EDALE, co. Derby. Speaker of the House of Lords in the Session of 1835. ^" consequence of the illness of the Lord Chan- cellor Cottenham, he presided as Lord High Steward, 16 Feb. 1841, at the trial of the Earl of Cardigan. Early in 1850, after 18 years' office, he resigned his post from ill health. He ;«., 1 8 Oct. 1 804, at Saxby, co. Lincoln, Theodosia Anne, ist da. of the Rev. Richard Vevers, Rector of Kettering, Northants, by Theodosia Dorothy, da. of the Rev. Sir William Anderson, 6th Bart, of Lea, co. Lincoln. She, who was b. 21 Nov. ']~<^^d. 28 June 1852, at Parsloes, Essex. He d. 22 Sep. 1854, of paralysis, in his 76th year, at Stoke Albany, Northants. (") Will pr. Oct. 1854. Tindal, Ch. Justice of the Court of Common Pleas 1829-46], and Mr. Wilde [after- wards Lord Truro and Lord Chancellor] appeared for the Queen. With the exception of Dr. Adams [William Adams, LL.D. (father of "G.E.C."), Advocate, Doctors Com- mons, from 1799 to 1825, when he retired from ill health though he survived till (his 8oth year) 11 June 185 i], they all subsequently obtained judicial dignity, three of them becoming Lord Chancellois." See Martin's Life of Lord Lyndhunt, p. 183, in which work, however, among the five (for such, not four ^ was their number) counsel for the King, the name of Sir Christopher Robinson, King's Advocate, is omitted. He, however, was no exception, being from 1828 to his death in 1833, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty. (") "Immense popularity attached to all who were engaged on behalf of that Lady [the Queen]." Annual Reg. for 1854. The popular excitement, however, soon flagged, and " before the close of the year, everybody was becoming tired of the Queen and her case. The tone of the public mind was cleverly expressed in an epigram written on the singularly malapropos passage which concluded Mr. Dcnman's speech for the Queen, in which he begged the House to tell her [in the words used some 1800 years prciously to a woman taken in adultery] to go and sin no more: — "Most Gracious Queen, we thee implore. To go away and sin no more ; But, if that effort be too great. To go away at any rate." See The Croker papers as quoted in a review thereof in The Athemeum, 25 Oct. 1884. Mr. Denman's comparison of this mature and reckless Queen to Octavia, the innocent and virgin bride of Nero (by implication involving a comparison of George IV to that tyrant) was equally unfortunate and much more inappropriate. Against these blunders may be set his happy reflection, on the subject of the Queen's name being omitted from the State Prayers, that she was included in the prayer for " all those who are desolate and oppressed." G.E.C. and V.G. C") Sic, not Chief Justice of England as wrongly stated in Block's Tables. See vol. iii, p. 370, note " d," sub Coleridge. (") Lord Broughton writes of him in 1826, " Denman is more striking as a companion than as a public man. He is acute, lively, full ol" anecdote, and brings a great deal of elegant learning to bear upon his talk." " As a Barrister he wa^ not 24