Ellenborough, Edward Law, 1st Baron
Ellenborough, Edward Law, 1st Baron,
1750–1818, British jurist and statesman. He achieved fame through his successful defense of Warren HastingsHastings, Warren,1732–1818, first governor-general of British India. Employed (1750) as a clerk by the East India Company, he soon became manager of a trading post in Bengal.
..... Click the link for more information. in the impeachment trial (1788–95), but his principal influence on England lay in his lifelong conservatism. As attorney general (1801) and lord chief justice (1802–18), he opposed Catholic EmancipationCatholic Emancipation,
term applied to the process by which Roman Catholics in the British Isles were relieved in the late 18th and early 19th cent. of civil disabilities.
..... Click the link for more information. and supported the repressive measures against radicals.