Sir Lawrence Peel

Called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1824, he went on to build a major legal career connected with British India. He served as advocate-general in Calcutta and later became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Fort William in Bengal, a post he held until retiring in the 1850s.

Alongside his judicial work, he wrote books of his own. His published works include Horae Nauseae and A Sketch of the Life and Character of Sir Robert Peel, showing an author with interests beyond the courtroom.

He was born on 10 August 1799, the third son of Joseph Peel and Anne Haworth, and was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge. He died in 1884, remembered chiefly for his senior role in the law courts of Calcutta and for the books he left behind.