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b. 21 May 1772, at Boston, Mass., 1st s. of John Singleton Copley, portrait painter, and Mary Susannah Farnum, da. of Richard Clarke, E.I. agent, of Boston. educ. at Dr. Thomas Horne’s, Chiswick; Franks’s sch. Clapham; Trinity Coll. Camb. 1790, fellow 1795-1804, travelling bachelor (to USA) 1795-6; L. Inn 1794, called 1804. m. (1) 13 Mar. 1819, Sarah Garay (d. 15 Jan. 1834), da. of Charles Brunsden, wid. of Lt.-Col. Charles Thomas, 2 Ft. Gds., 1s. d.v.p. 4da. (2 d.v.p.); (2) 5 Aug. 1837, in Paris, Georgiana, da. of Lewis Goldsmith, journalist, 1da. suc. fa. 1815; Kntd. Oct. 1819; cr. Bar. Lyndhurst 25 Apr. 1827. d. 12 Oct. 1863.
Offices Held

Sjt.-at-law 6 July 1813; charity commr. 1818 – 34; king’s sjt. and c.j. Chester circuit Dec. 1818 – July 1819; solicitor-gen. July 1819 – Jan. 1824; att.-gen. Jan. 1824 – Sept. 1826; master of rolls and recorder, Bristol Sept. 1826 – Apr. 1827; PC 20 Nov. 1826; ld. chan. Apr. 1827 – Nov. 1830, Nov. 1834 – Apr. 1835, Sept. 1841 – July 1846; c. bar. exch. Jan. 1831 – Dec. 1834; member, jud. cttee. of PC 1833; high steward, Cambridge Univ. 1840 – d.

Parlimentarian
COPLEY, Sir John Singleton (1772-1863), of 25 George Street, Hanover Square, Mdx.
Main residence: 25 George Street, Hanover Square, Mdx.
Notes

Copley destroyed most of his papers, but there are collections of remnants in Glam. RO (NRA 11640) and at Trinity College, Cambridge (20697). Before being divided, they were used by Sir Theodore Martin for his Life of Lord Lyndhurst (1883), which was written principally as a riposte to the alleged ‘mis-statements and malignant innuendo’ of Lord Campbell’s hostile portrait in his Lives of the Lord Chancellors (1869), viii. 1-210. The most recent biography is D. Lee, Lord Lyndhurst: the Flexible Tory (1994). See also Oxford DNB.

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COPLEY, Sir John Singleton (1772-1863)

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