- Fitzroy Kelly
Sir Fitzroy Edward Kelly PC (
9 October ,1796 –18 September 1880 ) was an Englishcommercial law yer of remarkable and precocious talent, apolitician and ajudge .Kelly was born in
London , the son of Robert Hawke Kelly (died in or before 1807), a captain in theRoyal Navy , and novellistIsabella Kelly "née" Fordyce. In 1824 he wascalled to the bar byLincoln's Inn , having already gained a reputation as a skilledspecial pleader . In 1834 he was made aKing's Counsel , remarkably after only 10 years' call. A strongTory , he was returned as member of parliament for Ipswich in 1835, but was unseated on petition. In 1837 however he again became member for that town.Allen (2004)]From 1843 to 1847 he was MP for Cambridge, and in 1852 was elected member for Harwich, but a vacancy suddenly occurring in East Suffolk, he preferred to contest that seat and was elected. He was solicitor-general in 1845 (when he was knighted), and again from February to December 1852, during which time he was junior to Attorney-General Sir Frederic Thesiger in the
prosecution ofJohn Henry Newman forlibel , theAchilli trial . In 1858–1859 he was Attorney General in Lord Derby's second administration. In 1866 he was raised to the bench asLord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and made a member of the Privy Council. He died at Brighton on18 September 1880.Notes
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*Allen, C. J. W. (2004) "Kelly, Sir Fitzroy Edward (1796–1880)", "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ", Oxford University Press, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15295, accessed 25 July 2007] (subscription required)
* cite book | author=Foss, E. | title=A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England: From the Conquest to the Present Time 1066-1870 | origyear=1848–64 | year=2006 | id=ISBN 1428629599 | authorlink=Edward Foss
*R. Shave Gowing, 'Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Lord Chief Baron' in "Public Men of Ipswich and East Suffolk. A Series of Personal Sketches" (Scopes: Ipswich, and Grant & Co.:London, 1875), pp. 71-78.
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