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1762 - Born on the 7th of October Canterbury in in South East England.
1787 - He entered Middle Temple to pursue his legal profession on the advice of Justice Buller.
1796 - He practised as a special pleader under the bar, and was finally called at the Inner Temple.
- He joined the Oxford circuit and soon made rapid headway.
1801 - He was appointed recorder of Oxford.
1802 - Appeared his Law Relative to Merchant Ships and Seamen,a concise and excellent treatise.
1808 - He was in a position to refuse a seat on the bench.
1816 - He was made judge of the Court of Common Pleas.
1818 - He was promoted to the Chief Justiceship of the King's Bench due to the resignation of Lord
Ellenborough.
1820 - As Chief Justice he presided over several important state trials, notably that of Arthur Thistlewood
and the Cato Street conspirators.
1827 - He was raised to the peerage as Baron Tenterden, of Hendon.
1832 - He died on the 4th of November, and was buried, by his own desire, in the Foundling Hospital,
London, of which he was a governor.
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