Men-at-the-Bar/Colquhoun, Patrick

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910795Men-at-the-Bar — Colquhoun, PatrickJoseph Foster


Colquhoun, Sir Patrick, knighted 14 Nov., 1861, formerly scholar of St. John's Coll., Camb. (from Westminster), M.A. 1844, LL.D. 1851, J.U.D. Heidelberg 24 Feb., 1838, Q.C. 4 Dec., 1868, member of supreme council of justice Corfu 1858–61, chief justice Ionian Islands 1861–4, plenipotentiary Hanse Towns in Turkey, Persia, and Greece 1840–4, aulic councillor of the King of Saxony, a member of numerous foreign orders, author of Summary on Roman Civil Law and The Judicature Acts and other legal, classical, and political treatises, vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature, a student of the Inner Temple 1 May, 1834 (then aged 19), called to the bar 4 May, 1838, bencher 29 Jan., 1869 (eldest son of James Colquhoun, LL.D., resident and consul-general of Hanse Towns 1817–55, cousin of late Sir Robert Gilmour Colquhoun, K.C.B., and grandson of P. Colquhoun, LL.D., lord provost of Glasgow in 1782-3-4); born 13 April, 1815; married, s.p.

Shepperton, Middlesex; 3, Stratford Place, W.; 2, King's Bench Walk, Temple, E.C.; Athenæum, Carlton, and Constitutional Clubs.