Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough

Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough (16 November 1750 to 13 December 1818) was an English judge who served as Attorney General from 1801 to 1802 and then as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 1802 until 1818, having also briefly served as Chancellor of the Exchequer for two weeks in 1806. Born in Great Salkeld, Cumberland, the son of Edmund Law, Bishop of Carlisle, he was educated at Charterhouse School and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he graduated as third wrangler, and he first came to public attention as principal counsel for Warren Hastings during his impeachment trial in 1787. Created Baron Ellenborough in 1802, he was a strong advocate of capital punishment and delivered the judgment in the copyright case Cary v Kearsley, which influenced the later development of the fair use doctrine. He had ten children with his wife Ann Towry, including Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, who went on to serve as Governor General of India. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/