The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-01 00:00:00

RIGHT HON. SIR E. B. SUGDEN.

Sir Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, LL.D., second son
of Mr. Richard Sugden, of Duke-street, St. James's;
i 3 author of several legal works of the highest authority;
in 1807 was called to the bar at Lincoln's-inn, and in
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cal from June 1829 till 1830, and in 1835 became Lord
Chancellor of Ireland, an office which he resigned about
three months after his appointment, and which he sub-
sequently held from 1841 to 1846; is well known for the
alteration he effected in the law relating to contempts of
court; represented Weymouth, Melcombe Regis, and St.
Mawes, in Parliament; was Member of Parliament for
Ripon from 1837 till September, 1841; is a deputy-lieu-
tenant of Sussex.

SIR JOHN SOMERSET ?AKINGTON, BART.,
Sun of William Russell, Esq., of Powick-court, Wor-
cestershire, by the daughter of Sir El. Perrot Paking-
ton, Bart., of Westwood. Born at Powick•court, 1799;
married, first, 1822, only child of M. A. Slaney, Esq.,
of Shiffnall, Salop (she died 1843); secondly, in 1844,
Augusta Anne, third daughter of Bishop (Murray) of
Rochester (she died 1848); thirdly, 1851, Augusta,
daughter of the late Thomas C. de Crespigny, and relict
of Colonel Davies, of Elmley Park, Worcestershire.
Assumed the name of Pakington on becoming heir to
his maternal uncle, Sir J. Pakington, Bart., 1830.
Educated at Eton and Oriel College, Oxon. Chairman
of the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions since 1834. A
Coniervative; voted for agricultural protection, 1846.
Has sat for Droitwich since 1837.

RIGHT HON. JOHN CHARLES HERRIES,
Eldest son of the late Colonel Berries, who was dis-
tinguished as among the first to set the example of rais-
ing volunteer companies during the late war; is brother
to Major-General Sir William Lewis Harries, K.C.H.,
Chairman of the Audit Board. Was educated at the
University of Leipzig. Married the daughter of John
Dorington, Etq., principal committee clerk to the House
of Commons; was private secretary to Mr. Percaval
during the greater pert of his administration; has filled
the office of commissaryin•chief, and auditor of the civil
list (for the abolition of the former office he is entitled
to pension of 1,3501. per annum, being half the emolu-
ments); was Secretary to the Treasury from 1823 till
September, 1827, when he was appointed Chancellor of
the Exchequer, an office which be filled till January,
1828; was Master of the Mint from 1828 till 1830; and
President of the Board of Trade from February to No-
vember 1830; was Secretary at War from December
1834 to 1835. A Conservative and Protectionist. Sat
for Harwiehlrom 1823 till 1841, when be was an unaun•_ cessful candidate for Ipswich. First returned for Stara-
ford in 1847. Has grown rich since he first entered the
public service.

SPENCER HORATIO WALPOLE,
Second son of the late Thomas Walpole, Esq., of
Scagbury-park, Sarrey, and Lady Margaret, youngest
daughter of the second Earl of EpEont. Born 1806;
married in 1835, Isabella, fourth daughter of the late
Right Hon. Spencer Pereeval. Was educated at Eton,
and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained the
first English declamation prize, and the prize for the
best essay on the character and conduct of William lIL
Was called to the bar in 1831 by the Society of Lin-
coln's Inn, of which he is a bendier; is a Queen's
counsel. A Conservative, and in favour of protection to
agriculture. First elected for Midhurst in 1846.