David Jardine (1794–1860) was an English barrister and magistrate, known as a historical and legal writer.

Life

Born at Pickwick, near Bath, Somerset, he was son of David B. Jardine (1766–1797), Unitarian minister at Bath from 1790, by his wife, a daughter of George Webster of Hampstead. The father died on 10 March 1797, and John Prior Estlin of

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edited, with a memoir, two volumes of his sermons. David Jardine graduated M.A. at

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in 1813, was called to the bar as a member of the

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(7 February 1823), chose the western circuit, and became recorder of Bath. In 1839 he was appointed

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, London. He died at the Heath,

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, Surrey, on 13 September 1860; his wife, Sarah, died three weeks later.

Works

With fellow lawyer Edgar Taylor, Jardine made the anonymous translations in ''German Popular Stories'' (1823), the first English translation of ''

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''. In 1828 Jardine published a ''General Index'' to Thomas Bayly Howell's ''Collection of State Trials''. In 1840 and 1841 he communicated to the

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two papers of ''Remarks upon the Letters of Thomas Winter and the Lord Mounteagle, lately discovered by J. Bruce. … Also upon the Evidence of Lord Mounteagle's implication in the Gunpowder Treason''.Printed in '' Archæologia'', xxix. 80–110, and also separately. These formed the materials for ''A Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot'', London, 1857. Jardine edited from a manuscript in the Bodleian Library ''A Treatise of Equivocation'', 1851, and translated F. C. F. von Mueffling's ''Narrative of my Missions in 1829 and 1830'', 1855. For the

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he selected and abridged from Howell's ''State Trials of England'' two volumes of ''Criminal Trials'', 1832–3 (in the ''

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''). To the ''Lives of Eminent Persons'', in the ''Library of Useful Knowledge'', published by the same society, he contributed a ''Life'' of

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. He wrote also: * ''A Reading on the use of Torture in the Criminal Law of England previously to the Commonwealth'', London, 1837 * ''Remarks on the Law and Expediency of requiring the presence of Accused Persons at Coroners' Inquisitions'', London, 1846.

References

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Jardine, David 1794 births 1860 deaths English barristers 19th-century English historians 19th-century English lawyers Committee members of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge