The Right Honourable Sir John Bernard Bosanquet KS PC (2 May 1773 – 25 September 1847) was a British judge. He was born to Samuel Bosanquet, the governor of the Bank of England, and his wife Eleanor and was educated at Eton College before being accepted into Christ Church, Oxford. He gained his BA on 9 June 1795 and his MA on 20 March 1800.[1] He became a member of Lincoln's Inn on 22 January 1794 and was called to the bar on 9 May 1800, joining the home circuit. He became general counsel to the East India Company in 1814 and the Bank of England in 1819.
He was made a Serjeant-at-Law on 22 November 1814 and after turning down the position of Chief Justice of Bengal in 1824 he was made a King's Serjeant in 1827.[1] After the retirement of James Burrough he became Third Justice of the Court of Common Pleas on 1 February 1830, and was knighted the next day. He became a member of the Privy Council on 4 September 1833 and sat on the Judicial Committee regularly until 1840. He retired from the Common Pleas in 1842 due to ill-health, and died on 25 September 1847.
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| Preceded by James Burrough |
Third Justice of the Common Pleas 1830–1842 |
Succeeded by Unknown |