Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley

Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley, PC, FRS, FBA, KC (29 November 1828 – 9 December 1921) was an English judge.

He was the second son of the botanist Dr. John Lindley,^[1] born at Acton Green, London. From his mother's side, he was descended from Sir Edward Coke. He was educated at University College School, and studied for a time at University College London, and the University of Edinburgh and University of Cambridge in 1898 and achieved Doctor of Civil Law in University of Oxford in 1903.^[1][2]

He was called to the bar at the

In 1875, he was appointed to be a Serjeant-at-law^[4][5] and a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas,^[4][5] the appointment of a chancery barrister to a common-law court being justified by the fusion of common law and equity then shortly to be brought about, in theory at all events, by the Judicature Acts.

In 1875, he was

Prior to the 1875 reforms, the appointment of serjeants-at-law had already declined, but common law judges could only be appointed from amongst the serjeants-at-law, so it was customary for any appointee who was not yet a serjeant to be appointed a serjeant immediately prior to being appointed a judge. As the requirement for common law judges to be serjeants was abolished shortly after, Lord Lindley became the last serjeant-at-law appointed, and the last judge to wear the serjeant's coif, or rather the black patch representing it, on the judicial wig.^[2]

He married Sarah Katharine, daughter of Edward John Teale of Leeds, on 5 Aug 1858.^[1][2][14] He died at home in East Carleton, near Norwich, in 1921.^[15] They had nine children, including diplomat Sir Francis Oswald Lindley and the army officer Major-General John Lindley.^[16]

Coat of arms of Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley

Crest In front of a Pelican in her piety Argent, vulning herself proper, and charged with a Pheon point downwards Or, three Quatrefoils fesswise Or. Escutcheon Argent, on a Chief nebuly Azure, a Quatrefoil between two Griffin’s Heads erased Argent. Supporters Dexter: a Griffin wings elevated Argent, standing on a Fasces proper. Sinister: a Pelican wings elevated Argent, vulning herself and standing on a Fasces proper. Motto SIS FORTIS (May you be brave)

Lord Lindley published two notable works, Lindley on Companies and Lindley on Partnership.^[2] The latter is still published today, as Lindley and Banks on Partnership, now in its 21st edition (2022).

• Allen v Gold Reefs of West Africa Ltd [1900] 1 Ch 656
• Illingworth v Houldsworth [1904] AC 355, on floating charges
• UK company law case on removing directors under the Companies Clauses Act 1845
  .
• Salomon v A Salomon & Co Ltd [1897] AC 22

Contract law

• Allcard v Skinner (1887) 36 Ch D 145
• Byrne v Van Tienhoven
  [1880] 5 CPD 344
• Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company [1892] EWCA Civ 1
  , [1893] 1 QB 256, [1892] 2 QB 484 (QBD) - an advertisement containing certain terms to get a reward constituted a binding unilateral offer that could be accepted by anyone who performed its terms.
• Creen v Wright (1875–76) LR 1 CPD 591
• consideration
• Parker v South Eastern Railway
  (1877) 2 CPD 416

Property

• Colls v Home and Colonial Stores (1904)
• Chatenay v Brazilian Submarine Telegraph Company Ltd [1891] QB 79 - choice of law in relation to transactions under foreign powers of attorney

Tort

• Quinn v Leathem [1901] AC 495
• Robinson v Kilvert (1889) LR 41 ChD 88

Trusts and equity

• Speight v Gaunt (1883) 9 App Cas 1
• In re Whiteley
  (1886) 33 Ch D 347, 355

Other

• Knox v Gye (1872)
• In re Addlestone Linoleum Co (1887) 37 Ch D 191
• South Hetton Coal Co v Haswell, Shotton and Easington Coal and Coke Co [1898] 1 Ch. 465
• Taff Vale Railway Co v Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants
  [1901] AC 426
• Scottish Free Church case [1904] AC 515
• Shepheard v Broome [1904] AC 342

Books

• Nathaniel Lindley, An Introduction to the Study of Jurisprudence; Being a Translation of the General Part of Thibaut’s System des Pandekten Rechts (William Maxwell, 1855)

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} (Hesilrige 1921)
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} (Chisholm 1911)
3. ^ "No. 23825". The London Gazette. 6 February 1872. p. 466.
4. ^ ^{a b} "No. 24211". The London Gazette. 25 May 1875. p. 2773.
5. ^ ^{a b} "No. 8584". The Edinburgh Gazette. 28 May 1875. p. 349.
6. ^ "No. 24209". The London Gazette. 18 May 1875. p. 2681.
7. ^ "No. 8582". The Edinburgh Gazette. 21 May 1875. p. 333.
8. ^ "No. 25033". The London Gazette. 1 November 1881. p. 5353.
9. ^ "No. 25050". The London Gazette. 20 December 1881. p. 6757.
10. ^ "No. 26903". The London Gazette. 26 October 1897. p. 5869.
11. ^ "No. 10931". The Edinburgh Gazette. 29 October 1897. p. 1026.
12. ^ ^{a b} "No. 27192". The London Gazette. 15 May 1900. p. 3070.
13. ^ ^{a b} "No. 11198". The Edinburgh Gazette. 18 May 1900. p. 494.
14. ^ RS. "The Royal Society: Library and Archive catalogue: surname Lindley". Retrieved 10 July 2011.^{[dead link‍]}
15. ^ The Royal Society 1921.
16. ^ "Lindley, Baron (UK, 1900 - 1921)". Cracrofts Peerage. Retrieved 9 June 2020.

References

• "Lindley & Banks on Partnership - 9780414023758 - SWEET & MAXWELL". Law Books - Sweet & Maxwell the Law Books and Law Journals Professionals. 2 December 2016. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
• "DServe Archive Catalog: Election ballot to the Royal Society; Lindley: Nathaniel (1828–1921); Baron Lindley Elected 1898". The Royal Society. 9 December 1921. Ref num: EC/1898/01. Retrieved 5 March 2017.

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lindley, Nathaniel Lindley, Baron". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 719.
• Hesilrige, Arthur G. M. (1921). Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy. 160A,
  Fleet street, London, UK: Dean & Son. p. 565.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link
  )

Further reading

• Pine, L. G. (1972). The New Extinct Peerage 1884–1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms. London, U.K.: Heraldry Today. p. 178..

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Preceded by Viscount Esher	Master of the Rolls 1897–1900	Succeeded by Lord Alverstone