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William Page Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley ( 29 November 1801- 10 July 1881), Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, son of Sir Matthew Wood, a London alderman and Lord Mayor who became famous for befriending Queen Caroline and braving George IV, was born in London. He was educated at Winchester, Geneva University , and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow after being 24th wrangler in 1824. He entered Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the bar in 1824, studying conveyancing in John Tyrrell's chambers. He soon obtained a good practice as an equity draughtsman and before parliamentary committees, and in 1830 married Miss Charlotte Moor. In 1845Events January 29 The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time New York Evening Mirror . March 1 President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas. March 3 Florida is admitted as the 27th U. he became Q.C.Queen's Counsel ( postnominal QC , during the reign of a male Sovereign known as King's Counsel KC , are barristers appointed by patent to be one of "Her Majesty's Counsel learned in the law". They do not constitute a separate order or degree of lawyers., and in 1847Events January 4 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government. January 13 The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California. January 16 John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory. was elected to parliament for the city of OxfordThis is about the city of Oxford in England. See also other meanings, including other cities. Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 ( 2001 census). Its latitude and longitude are 51°45'07" N a as a Liberal. In 1849Events January 23 Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her MD by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming the United States' first woman doctor January 31 Corn Laws abolished in the United Kingdom February 14 In New York City, James Knox Polk be he was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster, and in 1851Events January 23 The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning. March 1 Victor Hugo gives speech at the French national assembly and uses the phrase United State was made Solicitor-General and knighted, vacating that position in 1852. When his party returned to power in 1853, he was raised to the bench as a Vice-Chancellor. In 1868 he was made a Lord Justice of Appeal , but before the end of the year was selected by Mr Gladstone to be Lord Chancellor, and was raised to the peerage as Lord Hatherley of Down Hatherley. He retired in 1872 owing to failing eyesight, but sat occasionally as a law lord. His wife's death in 1878 was a great blow, from which he never recovered, and he died in London on 10 July 1881. Dean Hook said that Lord Hatherley, who was a sound and benevolent supporter of the Church of England, was the best man he had ever known. He was a particularly clear-headed lawyer, and his judgments, always delivered extempore, commanded the greatest confidence both with the public and the legal profession. He left no issue and the title became extinct on his death.
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Hatherley, William Page Wood, 1st Baron
Hatherley, William Page Wood, 1st Baron
Hatherley, William Page Wood, 1st Baron
Hatherley, William Page Wood, 1st Baron
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