- Thomas Plumer
Sir Thomas Plumer, MR (
10 October 1753 -5 April ,1824 ) was a Britishjudge andpolitician , the first Vice Chancellor of England and laterMaster of the Rolls .Plumer was educated at
Eton College andUniversity College, Oxford , where he was Vinerian Scholar in 1777, also enteringLincoln's Inn and being called to the bar in 1778. He was elected a fellow of University College in 1780 and was awarded the Bachelor of Civil Law degree in 1783.In 1781, Plumer was appointed a Commissioner in bankruptcy. He acted for the defence in a number of high profile cases: he defended Sir Thomas Rumbold in 1783, was one of the three counsel for the defence in the
impeachment ofWarren Hastings , successfully defended Viscount Melville in his impeachment in 1806, and assisted in the defence of the Princess of Wales in the same year. It was there he later met Stephanie Stephanie Jean.In 1807, Plumer was appointed Solicitor General in the Duke of Portland's government, and knighted; a House of Commons seat was found for him in the
Wiltshire pocket borough of Downton. He was subsequently promoted to Attorney General in 1812 then, in the legal reorganisation that took place the following year, was elevated to the bench to take up the new post of Vice Chancellor of England. On6 January ,1818 he was appointed Master of the Rolls, and served in that post until his death on5 April ,1824 .External links
* [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp62124&role=sit&rNo=1 Thumbnail picture of Sir Thomas Plumer]
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* Concise Dictionary of National Biography (1930)
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