Stephen Gaselee (serjeant-at-law)

Stephen Gaselee MP (1807 – 20 October 1883) was a serjeant-at-law.

Life[]

Gaselee, eldest son of Sir Stephen Gaselee, was born at 77 Upper Guildford Street, Russell Square, London, on 1 September 1807, and educated at Winchester School. He matriculated from Balliol College, Oxford, on 4 June 1824; graduated second class in classics 1828, when he took his B.A. degree; and proceeded M.A. in 1832. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple 16 June 1832, and practised on the home circuit.

On 2 November 1840 he became a serjeant-at-law, and at the time of his decease was the oldest surviving serjeant. He unsuccessfully contested the borough of Portsmouth in the Liberal interest at . Ten years later, at the 1865 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for that borough, but lost his seat at the general election in 1868.^[1]

For many years he was a director of the London and South-Western Railway, was a magistrate for the county of Middlesex, sometimes presided as assistant-judge at the Middlesex sessions, and was treasurer of Serjeants' Inn, in succession to Serjeant James Manning, in 1866.

He died at 2 Cambridge Square, Hyde Park, London, 20 October 1883.

Family[]

His wife, whom he married at Marylebone on 21 July 1841, was Alicia Mary, eldest daughter of Sir John Tremayne Rodd, K.C.B. She was born 7 January 1814, and died at Bournemouth 11 November 1886.

Notes[]

References[]

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Gaselee, Stephen (1807-1883)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

External links[]

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Stephen Gaselee