Career
From July 1819 to March 1823 he represented Rye in parliament as a Tory member. On 11 March 1829 he was appointed by the Duke of Wellington to the office of advocate to the Admiralty Court, and on being named advocate-general, 15 October 1834, was knighted at St. James's Palace on the 29th of the same month.
He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple 8 Nov. 1834, and in the following year was elected a bencher of his inn. He became master of the faculties in November 1841, and vicar-general to the lord primate in 1849. From February 1852 he was judge of the prerogative court of Canterbury until the abolition of this jurisdiction on 9 December 1857. He was dean of the Arches Court till his death. Herbert Jenner-Fust preceded him as Dean, and both were painted by F. Y. Hurlestone. He was sworn a privy councillor 5 April 1852.
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