Henry Bellenden Ker

(1785 c.-1871)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Ker, H. Bellenden (Henry Bellenden), 1785?-1871 NRA: Ker Charles Henry Bellenden (? 1785-1871) Legal Reformer DNB: Ker, (Charles) Henry Bellenden [formerly Charles Henry Gawler] (c.1785-1871), law reformer LBT ID: ChKer1871 VIAF ID: 67992864 LOC ID: n87860975	B/BAP: 1785 DIED: 1871-11-02
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Son of the botanist of the same name; he was educated at Lincoln's Inn where he befriended Henry Brougham with whom he was afterwards associated as a legal reformer. He published in the Edinburgh Review.
REFERENCES TO Henry Bellenden Ker: John Lewis Mallet to John Whishaw, 8 September 1831 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 14-3 Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, 23 October 1845 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 3: ¶ 10 ¶ 15 ¶ 16 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ 9 Chapter XII Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 4 Chapter XV Found 2: ¶ 6 ¶ 15 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VI. 1845-46. Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter XIII: 1806-40