Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley

The Right Honourable
The Lord Lindley
SL PC FRS FBA
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
In office
10 May 1900 – 2 December 1905
Master of the Rolls
In office
19 October 1897 – 9 May 1900
Preceded by The Lord Esher
Succeeded by The Lord Alverstone
Personal details
Born Nathaniel Lindley
(1828-11-29)29 November 1828
Acton Green, London, England
Died 9 December 1921(1921-12-09) (aged 93)
Citizenship United Kingdom
Nationality English
Parents John Lindley
Education University College School
Alma mater University College London

Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley, SL, PC, FRS, FBA (29 November 1828 – 9 December 1921) was an English judge.

Early life

He was the second son of the botanist John Lindley, born at Acton Green, London. From his mother's side he was descended from Sir Edward Coke. He was educated at University College School, and studied for a time at University College London.[1]

He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1850, and began practice in the Court of Chancery. In 1855 he published An Introduction to the Study of Jurisprudence, consisting of a translation of the general part of Thibaut's System des Pandekten Rechts, with copious notes. In 1860 he published in two volumes his Treatise on the Law of Partnership, including its Application to Joint Stock and other Companies, and in 1862 a supplement including the Companies Act 1862. This work has since been developed into two textbooks well known to lawyers as Lindley on Companies and Lindley on Partnership.[1] Among his pupils were Francis William Maclean, later Chief Justice of Bengal, and Frederick Pollock.

He took silk in February 1872.[2] In 1874 he was elected a bencher of the Middle Temple, of which he was treasurer in 1894.[1]

Judicial career

In 1875, he was appointed to be a Serjeant-at-law[3][4] and a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas,[3][4] the appointment of a chancery barrister to a common-law court being justified by the fusion of common law and equity then shortly to be brought about, in theory at all events, by the Judicature Acts.

In 1875, he was knighted.[5][6] In 1880 he became a justice of the Queen's Bench and in 1881 he was raised to be a Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal[7] and was sworn of the Privy Council.[1][8]

In 1897, Lord Justice Lindley succeeded Lord Esher as Master of the Rolls,[9][10] and in 1900 he was made a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary[11][12] with a life peerage and the title of Baron Lindley, of East Carleton in the County of Norfolk.[11][12] He resigned the judicial post in 1905.[1]

Lord Lindley was the last serjeant-at-law appointed, and the last judge to wear the serjeant's coif, or rather the black patch representing it, on the judicial wig.[1]

Mount Lindley in Antarctica is named after him.

Family

He married Sarah Katharine, daughter of Edward John Teale of Leeds, on 5 Aug 1858.[1][13] He died at home in East Carleton, near Norwich in 1921.[14] They had nine children, including diplomat Sir Francis Oswald Lindley.

Coat of arms

Writing

Lord Lindley published two notable works, Lindley on Companies and Lindley on Partnership.[1] The latter is still published today, as Lindley and Banks on Partnership, now in its 19th edition (2013).[15]

Cases

Company law

Contract law

Property

Tort

Trusts and equity

Other

Books

Notes

References

Attribution:

Further reading

Legal offices
Preceded by
Viscount Esher		 Master of the Rolls
1897–1900 		Succeeded by
Lord Alverstone
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