Abbott, Charles

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.