Men-at-the-Bar/De Gex, Sir John Peter

by Joseph Foster

De Gex, Sir John Peter, Q.C., M.A., Jesus Coll., Camb., 1834, hon. fellow, late fellow, joint author of De Gex, Macnaghten, and Gordon's {Chancery) Reports and of De Gex and Smale's Reports (Vice-Chancellor's Courts) 1846-52, etc., etc., knighted 7 Dec., 1882, a student of Lincoln's Inn 4 Nov., 1831 (then aged 22), called to the bar 30 Jan., 1835, Q.C. 28 March, 1865, called to the bench 19 April, 1865, treasurer 1882 (eldest son of John de Gex, Esq., of Leicester Place, Middlesex); born , 1809; married 15 May, 1880, Alice Emma, eldest dau. of Sir John Henry Briggs, Knt., and granddau. of late Sir John Thomas Briggs.

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