NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Kingsdown, Thomas Pemberton-Leigh, Baron, 1793-1867 NRA: Leigh, Thomas Pemberton- (1793-1867) Baron Kingsdown Barrister MP DNB: Leigh, Thomas Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown (1793–1867), lawyer LBT ID: LdKings1 VIAF ID: 1576806 LOC ID: n88256576 | B/BAP: 1793-02-11 DIED: 1867-10-07 |
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The son of Robert Pemberton; called to the bar from Lincoln's Inn, he was King's Counsel
(1829), Conservative MP for Rye (1831-32) and Ripon (1835-43) and attorney-general to the
prince of Wales (1841-43). He was raised to the peerage in 1858. | |