HOLOGRAPH DOCUMENT: A Bankruptcy Document SIGNED by EDWARD THURLOW, 1ST BARON THURLOW, the LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF GREAT BRITAIN.
by Thurlow, Edward, 1st Baron Thurlow (1731-1806). British lawyer and Tory politician who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
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The British lawyer and Tory politician Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow (1731-1806) served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1778 to 1792. After practicing law, Thurlow had turned to politics in 1768 and was elected Member of Parliament for Tamworth. Appointed Solicitor-General two years later, he was promoted to Attorney General in 1772. He ardently opposed American independence. He was defeated in his attempt to indict the publisher of the "Letters of Junius" Henry Sampson Woodfall for seditious libel when Lord Mansfield issued a verdict of mistrial. Appointed Lord Chancellor by Lord North and he retained the position through the governments led by Lord Rockingham, Lord Shelburne, and subsequently William Pitt the Younger. While in office, he opposed the economic and constitutional reforms proposed by Edmund Burke and John Dunning.
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- HOLOGRAPH DOCUMENT: A Bankruptcy Document SIGNED by EDWARD THURLOW, 1ST BARON THURLOW, the LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF GREAT BRITAIN.
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- Thurlow, Edward, 1st Baron Thurlow (1731-1806). British lawyer and Tory politician who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
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- April 21, 1789.
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- 1789.
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- HISTORY; LAW; POLITICS; BRITISH LAWYER; EDWARD THURLOW, 1ST BARON THURLOW; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; 18TH CENTURY; HOLOGRAPH DOCUMENT SIGNED; AUTOGRAPH; SIGNATURE; BANKRUPTCY DOCUMENT; LET A COMMISSION ISSUE AS PRAYED AND BE DIRECTED; SAMUEL BUCK; NICHOLAS SMIT
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