John Mellor (judge)
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Sir John Mellor, PC (1 January 1809 – 26 April 1887) was an English judge and Member of Parliament.
Life
Mellor was born in
As a young man, his
Mellor was one of the two judges at the special commission set up in Manchester in 1867 to try those accused of the murder of Police Sergeant Charles Brett.[1]
He was one of three judges at the 188-day long trial in 1873 of Arthur Orton, the Tichborne claimant. In his description of the case, James Beresford Atlay described him as 'second to none amongst the Common Law judges'.[2] Hamilton notes he 'often amused the jury with his dry humour'.[1]
Mellor retired in 1879 and was raised to the
Family
Mellor and his wife Elizabeth (née Moseley) had eight sons.[1] Sir James Robert Mellor (1839–1926), the third son, was noted as a lawyer and polo player.[3][4]
Arms
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References
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18534. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Atlay, James Beresford (1899). ""The trial at bar"". Famous trials of the century. London: Grant Richards. p. 355. Archived from the original on 18 April 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2009.
- ^ "Mellor, James Robert (MLR859JR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ISBN 978-1-4766-1956-9.
- ^ Debrett's Judicial Bench. 1869.
Further reading
- Hamilton, John Andrew (1894). Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 37. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 224. . In
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