LAWYER TO RETIRE
COAT FROM ANCESTOR’S ROBES. Sir Arthur Denman, grandson of the femouc lawyer who defended Queen Caroline in the divorce case brought against her by George IV., may shortly retire from his post of clerk of assize of the south-eastern circuit. In a few months’ time the name of his family will have been in the commissions of this circuit for a hundred years. Born in the month of the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny, Sir Arthur’s exI U’ienco of crime and criminal trials exceeds even that of Lord Darling or Mr. Justice Avory. He has been the adviser of practically every judge on the- Bench. Both Sir Arthur’s father and grandfather -were judges. The first Lord Denman, after defending Queen Caroline, was never forgiven by the king. Fir Arthur’s father provided almost the only case of a- judge refusing knighthood. Ono of Sir Arthur’s most prized pos-serx’-ions is a. coat, which he Wears as a s-moking-jacekt in the evenings, made from his grandfather’s robes. Puce in colour, it is now almost threadbare with usage.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 November 1931, Page 4
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