Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce
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Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce FSA; FRS |
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| Court of Appeal in chancery | |
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In office 8 October 1851 – 7 November 1866 |
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| Appointed by | Lord John Russell |
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15 February 1791 Barnstaple |
| Died | 7 November 1866 (aged 75) Roehampton Priory, Surrey |
| Resting place | Cheriton, Kent |
Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce (initially James Lewis Knight) (1791–1866) was an English barrister, known as a judge and politician.
He was the youngest son of John Knight of Fairlinch, Devon, by Margaret, daughter and heiress of William Bruce of Llanblethian, Glamorgan. He was born at Barnstaple on 15 February 1791, and was educated at King Edward's grammar school, Bath, and the King's school, Sherborne. He left Sherborne in 1805, and, after spending two years with a mathematical tutor, was articled to a solicitor in Lincoln's Inn Fields. When his articles had expired, he was admitted a student of Lincoln's Inn on 21 July 1812.
On 21 November 1817 Knight was called to the bar, and for a short time went the Welsh circuit. The increase of his chancery practice soon caused him to abandon the common law bar, and he confined himself to practising in the equity courts. In Michaelmas term 1829 he was appointed a king's counsel, and on 6 November in the same year was elected a bencher of Lincoln's Inn. On taking silk he selected the vice-chancellor's court, where Sir Edward Sugden was the leader; they had constant contests until Sugden's appointment as lord chancellor of Ireland in 1834.
In politics Knight was a Conservative, and in April 1831 he was returned for Bishop's Castle, a pocket borough belonging to Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis. His parliamentary career, however, was short, for the borough was disfranchised by the Great Reform Bill. In 1834 he received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from the University of Oxford. In 1835 he was one of the counsel heard at the bar of the House of Lords on behalf of the municipal corporations against the Municipal Reform Bill, and in 1851 on behalf of the deans and chapters against the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill.
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