Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley

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Template:Short descriptionTemplate:Use British EnglishTemplate:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox officeholder Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley, Template:Post-nominals (29 November 1828 – 9 December 1921) was an English judge.

Early life

He was the second son of the botanist Dr. John Lindley,<ref name=Debrett/> born at Acton Green, London. From his mother's side, he was descended from Sir Edward Coke. He was educated at University College School, and studied for a time at University College London, and the University of Edinburgh and University of Cambridge in 1898 and achieved Doctor of Civil Law in University of Oxford in 1903.<ref name=Debrett/><ref name=Hugh/>

He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1850,<ref name=Debrett/> and began practice in the Court of Chancery. In 1855 he published An Introduction to the Study of Jurisprudence, consisting of a translation of the general part of Thibaut's System des Pandekten Rechts, with copious notes. In 1860 he published in two volumes his Treatise on the Law of Partnership, including its Application to Joint Stock and other Companies, and in 1862 a supplement including the Companies Act 1862. This work has since been developed into two textbooks well known to lawyers as Lindley on Companies and Lindley on Partnership.<ref name=Hugh/> Among his pupils were Francis William Maclean, later Chief Justice of Bengal, and Frederick Pollock.

He took silk in February 1872.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> In 1874 he was elected a bencher of the Middle Temple, of which he was treasurer in 1894<ref name=Hugh/>

Judicial career

In 1875, he was appointed to be a Serjeant-at-law<ref name="LG24211">Template:London Gazette</ref><ref name="EG8584">Template:London Gazette</ref> and a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas,<ref name="LG24211"/><ref name="EG8584"/> the appointment of a chancery barrister to a common law court being justified by the fusion of common law and equity then shortly to be brought about, in theory at all events, by the Judicature Acts.

In 1875, he was knighted.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref><ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> In 1880 he became a justice of the Queen's Bench and in 1881 he was raised to be a Lord Justice of Appeal<ref name=Debrett/><ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> and was sworn of the Privy Council.<ref name=Hugh/><ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>

In 1897, Lord Justice Lindley succeeded Lord Esher as Master of the Rolls,<ref name=Debrett/><ref>Template:London Gazette</ref><ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> and in 1900 he was made a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary<ref name="LG27192">Template:London Gazette</ref><ref name="EG11198">Template:London Gazette</ref> with a life peerage and the title of Baron Lindley, of East Carleton in the County of Norfolk.<ref name="LG27192"/><ref name="EG11198"/> He resigned the judicial post in 1905.<ref name=Hugh/>

Prior to the 1875 reforms, the appointment of serjeants-at-law had already declined, but common law judges could only be appointed from amongst the serjeants-at-law, so it was customary for any appointee who was not yet a serjeant to be appointed a serjeant immediately prior to being appointed a judge. As the requirement for common law judges to be serjeants was abolished shortly after, Lord Lindley became the last serjeant-at-law appointed, and the last judge to wear the serjeant's coif, or rather the black patch representing it, on the judicial wig.<ref name=Hugh/>

Mount Lindley in Antarctica is named after him.

Family

He married Sarah Katharine, daughter of Edward John Teale of Leeds, on 5 Aug 1858.<ref name=Debrett/><ref name=Hugh/><ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Dead link</ref> He died at home in East Carleton, near Norwich, in 1921.Template:Sfn They had nine children, including diplomat Sir Francis Oswald Lindley and the army officer Major-General John Lindley.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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Writing

Lord Lindley published two notable works, Lindley on Companies and Lindley on Partnership.<ref name=Hugh/> The latter is still published today, as Lindley and Banks on Partnership, now in its 21st edition (2022).

Cases

Company law

Contract law

Property

Tort

Trusts and equity

Other

Books

  • Nathaniel Lindley, An Introduction to the Study of Jurisprudence; Being a Translation of the General Part of Thibaut’s System des Pandekten Rechts (William Maxwell, 1855)

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