Justice of the Queen's Bench, and at the same time became a Serjeant. In the following year he was knighted, and two years later transferred to the Court of Common Pleas. He died 18 Oct. 1876. He was joint compiler of the Digest to the Law Times Reports, 1840—1845.
Master of the Rolls.
Admitted 7 June, 1762.
Second son of John Arden of Pepper Hall, near Richmond (Yorks.), born in 1745. He was educated at the Grammar School of Manchester, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was Twelfth Wrangler in 1766, and was called to the Bar 10 Feb. 1769.
By family influence he obtained the Recordership of Macclesfield before he was much known at the Bar. In 1776 he was made a Welsh Judge, and in 1780 obtained a silk gown. In 1783 he became Solicitor-General, and entered Parliament as member for Newtown in the Isle of Wight. In 1784 he was raised to the Attorney-Generalship, which he held for five years. He was Reader at the Middle Temple in 1787, and Treasurer of the Inn in 1791.
In 1788, chiefly through the influence of Mr. Pitt, he became Master of the Rolls, and in 1801 succeeded Lord Eldon (q.v.) as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, being at the same time raised to the peerage with the title of Baron Alvanley of Alvanley in Cheshire.
Lord Alvanley's judgments whilst Master of the Rolls are found recorded in Brown's Chancery Cases, and Vesey Jun.'s Reports; whilst Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, in Bosanquet and Puller's Reports.
Admitted 10 November, 1836.
Only son of Joseph Arnould, M.D., of Camberwell, where he was born 12 Nov. 1814. He was educated at Charterhouse and Oxford, where he had a distinguished career. After his call to the Bar 19 Nov. 1841, he varied his legal with literary work, and contributed to the Daily News, and other journals. Whilst in the Temple he shared chambers with Alfred Domett (q.v.). In 1859 he obtained a seat on the Bench of the Supreme Court of Bombay, and was knighted. The Arnould Scholarship at the Bombay University commemorates his connection with that city. He retired from his judgeship in 1869, and died at Florence in 1886.
He is known as the author of a work on the Law of Marine Insurance (1848), and a Memoir of Lord Denman (1873). Also of a report of The Judgment in the Kojah Case (1866).
Admitted 8 May, 1594.
Son and heir of John Arundell, of Trerize (Trerice), Cornwall, and grandson of Sir John, known as "Jack of Tilbury" temp. Henry VIII. He himself went by the appellation of "Jack for the King" in reference to his loyalty in the Civil Wars, in which he took a leading part in the West, holding Pendennis Castle for the King for five months in 1646, as recorded by Clarendon (q.v.). His losses in the war reduced him to poverty, and he did not live to see his fortunes repaired at the Restoration. His son Richard, however, ennobled in 1664 as Baron Arundell of Trerice, recovered the estates.
