A memoir of the Right Hon. William Page Wood, Baron Hatherley : with selections from his correspondence / edited by his nephew, W.R.W. Stephens.

London : R.ichard Bentley & Son, 1883

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Hatherley, William Page Wood, -- Baron, -- 1801-1881.

Judges -- Biography -- Great Britain.

Volume 1

Autobiographical sketch

Memoir

I. School life at Winchester and Geneva ; Correspondence A.D. 1818 to 1819

II. Life at Cambridge, tur in Italy, beginning of professional career, attachment to his future wife, happiness of his married life, accession of wealth, foundation of a school at Hatherley, characteristics of letters to W. F. Hook ; Diary and correspondence A.D. 1828 to 1847

Volume 2

Memoir continued

III. Entrance into Parliament, speeches on Jewish disabilities, on punishment of death, on game laws, on the Stamford election, on the 'ballot', on marriage with deceased wife's sister, made Solicitor-General, offer of a Judgeship declined, last speech in House of Commons, made a Vice-Chancellor, lecture on 'truth and its counterfeits', book on 'continuity of holy scripture', made a Lord Justice ; Correspondence A.D. 1847 to 1867

IV. Offer of the Lord Chancellorship, his reluctance to accept, the new ministry, speech at Fishmongers' Hall, congratulatory addresses- speech on second rending of Irish Church Bill, speech on July 20, 1869, law reforms, appointment of Sir R.P. Collier, speech in defence of it, ecclesiastical judgments, the Purchas and Bennett cases, failure of sight, resignation of office, gradual retirement from public life, death of Dr. Hook, death of Lady Hatherley, illness and death of Lord Hatherley,remarks on his character, observations of Lord Selborne, verses by Dean Stanley

Sonnets and other poems.

Includes index.

Making of modern law online collection.

2 volumes (x, 307, vi, 329 pages) : portraits ; 20 cm