A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Aland, John Fortescue
Admitted 3 July, 1688.
Second son of Edmund Fortescue, of London (who took the name of Aland on his marriage), and a descendant of Sir John Fortescue, Lord Chancellor under Henry VI. He was born 7 March, 1670. He was called to the Bar 13 May, 1695. Subsequently he joined the Inner Temple, where he was Reader and Treasurer in 1716. On 22 Oct. 1714, he was appointed Solicitor-General to the Prince of Wales, and on 21 Dec. 1715, Solicitor-General to the King. On 24 Jan. 1717, he was made a Baron of the Exchequer and next year transferred to the King's Bench. He finally (in 1728) became a judge in the Common Pleas, from which position he retired in 1746, and died the same year, 19 Dec.
Lord Fortescue edited a work of his great ancestor, entitled. The Difference between an Absolute and Limited Monarchy, prefixing a preface, and after his death a collection of reports taken by him was published, entitled, Reports of Select Cases in all the Courts of Westminster Hall; also the Opinion of all the Judges of England relating to the Grandest Prerogative of the Royal Family, and some Observations relating to the Prerogative of a Queen Consort. Folio. In the Savoy. 1748.