Sir John Bernard Bosanquet KS PC (2 May 1773 – 25 September 1847) was a British judge.

Life

He was born to

Samuel Bosanquet Samuel Bosanquet (1744–1806) was an English merchant and banker. Life Samuel Bosanquet was born into an immigrant family of Huguenots, the son of Samuel Bosanquet (1700–1765) and his wife Mary Dunster. His sister Mary would go on to becom ...

, the governor of the

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, and his wife Eleanor, and was educated at

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before being accepted into

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. He gained his BA on 9 June 1795 and his MA on 20 March 1800. He became a member of

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on 22 January 1794 and was called to the bar on 9 May 1800, joining the home circuit. He also attended the Essex sessions, of which his father was chairman. Before his call he had, with Christopher Puller, started the ''Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Court of Common Pleas and Exchequer Chamber, and in the House of Lords''. Of these reports there are two series, the first in three volumes from 1790 to 1804, and the second in two volumes from 1804 to 1807. Owing to family influence his career at the bar was soon a successful one. He became general counsel to the

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in 1814, and the Bank of England in 1819. He was made a Serjeant-at-Law on 22 November 1814, and from that time came prominently before the public in the numerous bank prosecutions which he conducted with great discretion for thirteen years. He turned down the position of Chief Justice of Bengal in 1824 and was made a

King's Serjeant A Serjeant-at-Law (SL), commonly known simply as a Serjeant, was a member of an order of barristers at the English and Irish Bar. The position of Serjeant-at-Law (''servientes ad legem''), or Sergeant-Counter, was centuries old; there are writ ...

in 1827. On 16 May 1828 he was nominated one of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the practice of the common law courts. Over this commission he presided for three years. 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. Upon the resignation of

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, Bosanquet in conjunction with

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, the master of the rolls, and Sir

Lancelot Shadwell Sir Lancelot Shadwell (3 May 1779 – 10 August 1850) was a barrister at Lincoln's Inn and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Ripon from 1826 to 1827 before becoming Vice-Chancellor of England in 1827. He supported Jewish emancipation. Life He ...

, the vice-chancellor, was appointed a lord commissioner of the great seal. This commission lasted from 23 April 1835 to 16 Jan. 1836, when Pepys was made lord chancellor. He retired from the Common Pleas in 1842 due to ill-health, and died on 25 September 1847 at Firs,

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. He was buried at Llantillio-Crossenny, Monmouthshire.

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