Charles Law (British politician)

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Charles Ewan Law
by Francis William Wilkin

The Honourable Charles Ewan Law QC (14 June 1792 – 13 August 1850), was a judge and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Background and education[]

Law was the second son of Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough, by Anne Towry, daughter of Captain George Philip Towry, of , Northumberland. Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, was his elder brother.[1] He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, graduating M.A. in 1812.[2]

Legal and political career[]

Law was returned to parliament as one of two representatives for Cambridge University in 1835, a seat he held until his death in 1850.[1][3] He succeeded Newman Knowlys as Recorder of London in 1833 and was a Queen's Counsel.[1]

Family[]

Law married Elizabeth Sophia (1789–1864), daughter of Sir Edward Nightingale, 10th Baronet, first on 8 May 1811 at Gretna Green, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and again on 22 May 1811.[4] They had ten children:

  • Anne Law (21 January 1815 – 17 February 1837)
  • Mary Law (20 January 1816 – 23 April 1888), married John Browne, 3rd Baron Kilmaine
  • Elizabeth Sophia Law (7 October 1817 – 5 December 1888), first abbess of the Poor Clares at Drumshanbo
  • Edward Law (26 February 1819 – 1 July 1838)
  • Charles Edmund Towry-Law, 3rd Baron Ellenborough (1820–1890)
  • Selina Law (29 November 1822 – 12 July 1838)
  • Frederica Law (19 September 1824 – 15 November 1889, married first Edmund Law (d. 1867) and second Henri Grève, had issue
  • Emily Octavia Law (29 November 1825 – 28 September 1845)
  • Gertrude Catherine Law (28 December 1828 – 22 June 1848)
  • Henry Towry-Law (26 August 1830 – 7 November 1855)

Law died in August 1850, aged 58. His wife survived him by 14 years and died in June 1864.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d thepeerage.com Hon. Charles Ewan Law
  2. ^ "Law, the Hon. Charles Ewan (LW810CE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ "leighrayment.com House of Commons: Caernarfon to Cambridgeshire South West". Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 August 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links[]

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Preceded by Member of Parliament for Cambridge University
1835–1850
With: Henry Goulburn 		Succeeded by
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