ONE result of the Great War has been a renewed interest in Lord Stowell's personality and in his judicial work. But his biography in Townsend's Twelve Eminent Judges, and the combined biography of the two Scotts in Surtees' short Lives of Lord Eldon and Lord Stowell, were published in 1848 and are now out of print. The reader therefore who desires to become acquainted with Stowell's career is left for a modern biography to a slight sketch in a work called Great Jurists of the World, and to the brief, though, from its authorship, important article in the Dictionary of National Biography. The first aim, therefore, of the following pages is to present an impression of Stowell as a man, from which, supplemented by the tabular statement at the commencement of the book, a clear view can be obtained of the course of his life. The second aim is to enable a reader to realize Stowell's judicial work, to collect and to formulate thoughts and criticisms

which a perusal of his decisions arouses, and to define the achievements of a judge and a jurist whose influence on one branch of British jurisprudence-of international as well as of national value-was individual, important, and permanent.

Two portraits of Lord Stowell may be seen at Oxford-one painted in 1807 by Hoppner, is at University College; another painted in 1827 by T. Phillips, is at Corpus Christi College. In the Library of University College is a statue on the same pediment as one of Lord Eldon. A third portrait by Phillips is in the Council Chamber, Town Hall, Newcastleupon-Tyne.

I. REPORTS WHICH CONTAIN LORD STOWELL'S JUDG-

MENTS, AND NOTE ON SOME MS. NOTES BY HIM

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1772

May 30

1774

1777

1779

June 23

1779

November 5

1780

1781

February 11
April 7

1782 1783

May 21

Born at Heworth, County Durham. Eldest son of William Scott of Newcastle-uponTyne, one of the Guild of "Hoastmen," shipbroker, and merchant, who died in 1776, and of Jane, daughter of Henry Atkinson of Newcastle, merchant; she died 18th July 1800.

Elected a Durham Scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, after education at Newcastle Grammar School.

Matriculated.

Student of Middle Temple.
B.A.

Probationary Fellow of University College.
Resigned Fellowship April 7, 1782.
Actual Fellow, and Tutor till 1776.
M.A.

B.C.L.

Elected Camden Reader of Ancient History;
resigned 1785.

Took chambers and lived at 3 King's Bench
Walk, Temple, and began to keep Terms,
but did not leave Oxford finally till 1780.
D.C.L.

Enrolled as an Advocate of the College of
Doctors at Law exercent in the Ecclesi-
astical and Admiralty Courts.
Called to the Bar, Middle Temple.
Marriage to Maria Anne, eldest daughter
and co-heiress of John Bagnall, Esq.,
of Erleigh Court, Reading, who pur-
chased it in 1766; she died on September
4, 1809. The Scotts lived at 5 College
Square, Doctors' Commons.

Appointed Advocate of the Admiralty.
Appointed Registrar of the Court of
Faculties.

1 See Erleigh Court and its Owners, by E. W. Dormer, Poynder, Reading, 1912.