Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 25 - Justice Bosanquet
Justice Bosanquet. — Right Hon. Sir John Bernard Bosanquet, Knight, a younger son of the second Samuel Bosanquet of Forest House, was born 2nd May 1773. He was called to the English Bar in 1804, and was made King’s Sergeant in 1827; he was standing counsel to the Bank of England. His law reports are authorities of the first class, being also annotated with learning and judgment. Though he confined his practice to the common law courts, he was familiar by study with chancery law, and the accuracy and fulness of his information was unsurpassed. He was knighted in 1830, on becoming a judge, and he took his seat as a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. In 1833 he was made a Privy Councillor, and in 1835 was a Lord High Commissioner of the Great Seal — a compliment for which an interregnum as to the office of Lord Chancellor presented an opportunity. He was also a Commissioner for the improvement of the practice in the Superior Courts of Common Law, and a Commissioner of the Public Records. He died 25th September 1847. When, according to custom, on being made a Judge, he put his armorial bearings on painted glass in Sergeants’ Inn, he took his motto from Horace, Per damna, per cades, in acknowledgment of his prosperity arising from the Almighty’s care of a family that had given up their country for their faith.
[Edward Foss, in his Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England, says of Mr. Justice Bosanquet, that he was selected as arbitrator between the Crown and the Duke of Athol, to fix the amount of the Duke’s unsettled claims on resigning the sovereignty of the Isle of Man. “He published, without his name, a Letter of a Layman on the connection of the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse, embodying in a small compass, a great amount of research. He was a very considerable linguist, of accurate and various learning, and particularly fond of scientific enquiries.”]