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Court of Appeals a committee of five was counsel engaged to interfere with his judg appointed to draft and report appropriate ment; and his decisions show that they were resolutions, and the following were adopted : always given upon the merits of the case as his own mind understood them, without re "Resolved, That the Bench and Bar of the ference to his. favorable or unfavorable Court of Appeals have heard with deep emotion estimate of those by whom they were pre of the death of the late Chief Justice of Maryland, sented. the Hon. John Carroll Le Grand; and they cherish "In private life he was amiable and affec with tender regard the memory of his shining tionate, kind and courteous. Those who qualities, his valuable learning, his spirit of justice,

and his able, impartial knew him well, will and dignified deport ever hold in cherished ment, as presiding offi recollection his hon cer of this Court. esty of purpose, his "Resolved, That in directness of mind, the death of Judge Le and his contempt Grand many losses are for all that was not united : the State of straightforward, and Maryland has lost one manly and true. He of her most accom has been taken from plished and public-spir us in the full glory of ited citizens — the pro his manhood, and in fession of the law one the maturity of his of its most brilliant intellect. He has ornaments — literature one of its most valu died almost in har able contributors — the ness, and the public, galaxy of friendship, whom he has so long one of its brightest stars and faithfully serve d — and the poor and dis will remember his tressed a cordial sympa services and his vir thizer and friend." tues. ' Of his frail These resolutions ties,' — in the lan were presented by guage of that most john b. eccleston. the Hon. John Thomgraceful member of son Mason, who de our Bar (S. Teackle livered a most eloquent eulogy upon the Wallis), the accomplished scholar, the elo quent orator, the learned lawyer and pure deceased. patriot, now (1862) languishing in a distant Hon. John Bowers Eccleston was born fortress — ' of his frailties which of us shall in 1794 in Kent County, Maryland. He speak? If he had survived us, he would have been the last to have mentioned ours.'" received his principal education at Washing On the 9th of January, 1862, Reverdy ton College, near Chestertown, and studied Johnson, at that time the head of the Bar of law with Mr. Reddingfield Hand, of that Maryland, and one of the most distinguished place. Soon after his admission to the Bar, American lawyers, announced to the Court he was elected, in 18 19, to the Legislature. of Appeals the death of the late Chief Justice Subsequently, however, he retired, practically, from public life, and devoted himself Le Grand in an eloquent speech. At a subse quent meeting of the Bench and Bar of the to the practice of his profession. Like all