Richard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley

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Template:Short description Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Template:Refimprove Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Richard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley Template:Post-nominals (20 May 1744 – 19 March 1804) was a British barrister and Whig politician, who served as the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. He was a Member of Parliament from 1783 to 1801.

Biography

He was born on 20 May 1744 in Bredbury, the son of John Arden (1709–1787),[1] and Mary Pepper, and baptised on 20 June 1744 in Stockport. Educated at The Manchester Grammar School, he matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in November 1761[2] and received his BA in 1766.[3]

Arden was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1769, and received his MA from Trinity the same year, being made a Fellow of the college shortly after.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

He took chambers in Lincoln's Inn and became a close friend of William Pitt, with whom he would maintain a political alliance throughout his career. In 1776 he was made judge on the South Wales circuit. Invested as a King's Counsel in 1780, he was Solicitor General during the ministry of Shelburne, and again for a year under Pitt the Younger. At this time he entered the House of Commons as the Whig MP for Newtown, representing the seat from 1783 to 1784. In 1784 he became MP for Aldborough, and was appointed Attorney General and Chief Justice of Chester, posts he would hold until 1788.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

On 4 June 1788, he was again advanced to become Master of the Rolls, and was knighted on 18 June 1788. He was also appointed to the Privy Council that year. In 1790, he left Aldborough to become MP for Hastings until 1794, and then for Bath until 1801.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

In May 1801, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and on 22 May 1801, was created Baron Alvanley, of Alvanley, in the County of Chester. Alvanley died on 19 March 1804 and was buried a week later in Rolls Chapel, London. His will was probated in April 1804.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

According to William E. A. Axon in the Dictionary of National Biography: "He was not a man of great oratorical powers, but possessed the qualities of intelligence, readiness and wit... It would be vain to claim any great distinction for Lord Alvanley. He was a learned lawyer and a successful politician... the few productions that remain from his pen evince refinement, taste and facility of expression."Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Family

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The grave of Anne, Lady Alvanley, Holyrood Abbey

On 9 September 1784, Arden married Anne Dorothea Wilbraham-Bootle (1757–1825), daughter of Richard Wilbraham-Bootle and Mary Bootle.[4] Their children were:

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Notes

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  1. ↑ Ricard Parkinson,The Private Journal and Literary Remains of John Byrom, Vol II Part II, Chetham Society, Printed for the Chetham society, 1857. p. 642
  2. ↑ Arden's DNB entry has him at Manchester Grammar from 1752 to 1763, and entering Trinity College in October 1763. However, these dates do not agree with Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses or with ODNB.
  3. ↑ Template:Acad
  4. ↑ Edmund Lodge, The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing (Saunders and Otley, 1833), 17.
  5. ↑ A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, 22nd edition, Sir Bernard Burke, Harrison & Sons, 1860, p. 1117.
  6. ↑ The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Darlington, W. H. D. Longstaffe, J. Henry Parker (London), 1854, p. 389.

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