Sir George Essex Honyman, 4th Baronet (22 January 1819–16 September 1875) was an English judge.

Life

Honyman was born at

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, 22 January 1819. His father, Sir Ord Honyman, 3rd Baronet, born 25 March 1794, became lieutenant-colonel commanding the

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27 December 1850, and died at

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27 January 1863, having married, 7 April 1818, Elizabeth Essex, youngest daughter of

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of Coton Hall,

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, an

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. She died at

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28 October 1864. The eldest son, George Essex, was received in 1838 into the office of ''Martineau, Malton, & Trollope'',

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. In 1840 he became a

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of Sir

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, and afterwards read with David Octavius Gibbons, the special pleader. In 1842 he commenced practice as a pleader. For seven years he had few clients, but studied hard, and mastered commercial law. On 8 June 1849 he was

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at the

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, and went the home circuit, where he at once attracted the attention both of the leaders of the bar and of the bench. He was married on 26 November 1860 to Annie Johanna, daughter of Virtue Thirkettle of

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; she died on 13 January 1881. In 1853 he was the best commercial lawyer of the day. He was not a great orator, but he had a quick intellect, a tenacious memory, and was industrious and conscientiously thorough. He succeeded his father as fourth baronet in 1863. On 23 July 1866 he was appointed a queen's counsel, became a bencher of his inn in November 1866, and a

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23 January 1873. On the recommendation of

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he became a judge of the Court of Common Pleas, 23 January 1873. Sir George resigned in February 1875 and died at

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on 16 September 1875 aged 56.

Family

He and his wife Annie Johanna, had no sons, so he was succeeded by his younger brother, the Rev. William Macdonald Honyman, as the fifth, and last, Honyman baronet. His wife died in

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in 1881 and is buried in St Cuthberts Churchyard.Honyman grave, St Cuthberts, Edinburgh

Arms

References

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