Thomas Erskine, first baron Erskine

(1750-1823)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823 NRA: Erskine, Thomas (1750-1823) 1st Baron Erskine, Lord Chancellor DNB: Erskine, Thomas, first Baron Erskine (1750-1823), lord chancellor LBT ID: LdErski1 VIAF ID: 59154307 LOC ID: n50012295	B/BAP: 1750-01-10 DIED: 1823-11-17
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Scottish barrister who was a Whig MP for Portsmouth (1783-84, 1790-1806); after defending the political radicals Hardy, Tooke, and Thelwall in 1794 he was lord chancellor in the short-lived Grenville-Fox administration (1806-07).
CORRESPONDENCE OF Thomas Erskine, first baron Erskine: Sir Thomas Erskine to Samuel Rogers, [1809?] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) William Roscoe to Lord Erskine, [June 1810] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Lord Erskine to Thomas Creevey, 10 January 1811 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Thomas Erskine to Lady Morgan, 11 October 1822 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)