"Especially I should say, if you would allow me to do so, that your name stands already high among all classes in this country as a model of uprightness and independence in the judicial office."
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Lord John Russell to Lord Denman (29 January 1850), quoted in Joseph Arnould, Memoir of Thomas, First Lord Denman formerly Lord Chief Justice of England, Vol. II (1878), p. 291
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Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman
Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman (23 July 1779 – 26 September 1854) was a British lawyer, judge and politician.
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