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i86 DENMAN II. 1854. 2. Thomas (Denman, d/z^-wari/i Aitchison-Denman), Baron Denman of Dovedale, ist s. and h., b. 30 July 1805; ed. at Eton; matric. at Oxford (Brasenose Coll.) 17 May 1823; Barrister (Line. Inn) 1833, and associate to his father, when Ch. Justice of the Queen's Bench, 1832-50. He ;»., istly, 12 Aug. 1829, at Lincoln, Georgina, da. of the Rev. Thomas Roe, by Catherine Sarah, sister of Major Gen. Sir Howard Elphinstone, ist Bart. She d. 25 Apr. 1871, at Stony Middleton. He ?«., 2ndly, 10 Oct. 1871, at Haddington, Marion, ist da. and coh. of James Aitchison, of Alderston, co. Haddington, by Janet Rennie, his wife. By royal lie, 20 Dec. 1876, he took the name of Aitchison before that oi Denman, under the will of his wife's mother above- named. He d. s.p.y somewhat suddenly, of heart disease, 9 Aug. 1894, aged 89, at the King's Arms hotel, Berwick, and was bur. at Alderston afsd.(') Will pr. at ;^i 1,831 gross. His widow d. 27 Feb. 1902, at Alderston. III. 1894. 3. Thomas (Denman), Baron Denman of Dovedale [1834], great nephew and h., being ist s. and h. of Richard Denman, by Helen Mary, da. of Gilbert McMicking, of Mil- tonise, co. Wigtown, which Richard (who d. 5 Apr. 1883, aged 41), was 1st s. and h. ap. of the Hon. Richard Denman, Barrister-at-law (d. 19 Mar. 1887, aged 73), yr. br. of the 2nd and 3rd s. of the ist Baron. He was l>. 16 Nov. 1874, at 46 Queen's Gate Terrace, South Kensington; ed. at the Mil. Coll. Sandhurst; Lieut. Royal Scots; fought in the South African War 1 900-0 1;() a Lord in Waiting (Liberal) 1905-07; Capt. of the Gent, at Arms 1907-11; P.C. 12 Aug. 1907; Governor Gen. of Australia I9ii-i4.(') He served in the European War, being app. Lieut. Col. distinguished for the variety and depth of his legal knowledge; he owed his success to other qualities than those of the mere lawyer. In liim the man always triumphed over the advocate. He was all sincerity and fervour; his manner was popular; his fine musical and powerful voice and easy manner of speaking were great recommendations; his appearance strikingly prepossessing, his figure tall and his head of fine and noble expression, is'c." {Annual Reg. for 1854). Greville, in his Memoin, remarks that "he made a very bad judge, but was personally popular and generally respected." He was certainly vastly inferior in legal ability to his immediate predecessors in the office of Chief Justice. Like most eminent lawyers, he made no figure in the House of Commons. G.E.C. and V.G. (*) A very independent politician, described as "Liberal" in Dod up to 1884, but he usually voted .against his party in important divisions, e.g., on the Repeal of the Paper Duty, the vote of censure on the Danish question in 1864, and the Irish Church and Irish Land Acts of the first Gladstone ministry. From 1891 Dod classes him as a Conservative. V.G. (^) For a list of peers and heirs ap. of peers who fought in this war, see vol. ii, Appendix B. (■=) He has no political creed assigned to him in Dod before 1903, in which year he is described as " Conservative." The next year he joined the Liberals. V.G.