Richard Keble
Richard Keble (died 1683/84)
Life
Richard Keble was from
During 1648 Keble was sent to
Keble presided at two significant trials: that of
Keble's salary was irregularly paid, and his petition for payment of what was owing, was presented in 1655, and still disregarded in 1658.[11] At the Restoration Keble was excepted from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act (under Section XLIII which forbade him from accepting a public office). His will, dated April 1673, was proved August 1684.[2]
Reputation
In 1660 at the
Hilkiah Bedford, a political opponent, called him "an insolent, mercenary pettifogger," who without jury or evidence sent to the gallows any he suspected of royalism. The Lilburne and Love trials were typical of common law procedure.[2] On the other hand, the Love trial, where Christopher Love's guilt was not seriously in doubt, has been described as a "demonstration of the republic's brute power dressed up as legal sovereignty".[13] Edward Foss wrote that Keble apparently acted "with less unfairness and severity" than colleagues.[14] A near contemporary and historian, Laurence Echard, in his History of England speaks of Keble as being then a man of "little practical experience".[15]
Family
Keble married Mary Sickelmor. Joseph Keble was their fourth son.[16]
Notes
- ^ Also known as Richard Keeble and Richard Kebble (Hamilton 1892, p. 295)
- ^ a b c d e f Roberts 2008.
- ^ Foster 1889, p. 122.
- ^ Hamilton 1892, p. 295 Cites: Life of Dr. Join Barwick, p. 153.
- ^ Foss 1870, p. 380.
- ^ "A sharp discussion arose whether they should be called "Lords" Commissioners, the word "Lord" having become distasteful to some; but the opinion of the great majority [in Parliament] was, that to drop it would be derogatory to the authority of the parliament.!" (Campbell 1845, p. 43)
- ^ Matthews 2004, p. 99.
- ^ Hamburger 2009, p. 40 note 23.
- ^ Scott 2008.
- ^ Black 1976, p. 41.
- ^ Hamilton 1892, p. 296 Cites: Whitelock Memorials, pp. 240, 342, 380; Blomefield, Norfolk, i. 396; Public Record Commission, 5th Rep. App. ii. 271; Green, Cal. State Papers Dom. 1655-1668.
- ^ Whitlocke 1990, p. 607.
- ^ Vernon 2004.
- ^ Foss 1870, p. 381.
- ^ Hamilton 1892, p. 295 Cites History of England, ed. 1718, ii. 652
- ^ Handley 2008.
References
- Black, Stephen F. (January 1976). "Coram Protectore: The Judges of Westminster Hall under the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell". The American Journal of Legal History. 20 (1). Temple University: 32–64. JSTOR 844849.
- Campbell, John (1845). The lives of the Lord Chancellors and keepers of the great seal of England: from the earliest times till the reign of King George IV. Vol. 3 (3 ed.). J. Murray. p. 43.
- Courtenay, Thomas Peregrine (1836). Memoirs of the life, works, and correspondence of Sir William Temple, bart. Vol. 2. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman. p. 312 footnote.
- Foss, Edward (1870). Biographia juridica. A biographical dictionary of the judges of England from the Conquest.
- Foster, Joseph (1889). The Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1521-1889. Hansard Pub. Union. p. 122.
- Hamburger, Philip (30 June 2009), Law and Judicial Duty, Harvard University Press, p. 40 note 23, ISBN 978-0-674-03819-6
- Handley, Stuart (January 2008) [2004]. "Keble, Joseph". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15232. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Matthews, Nancy L. (8 July 2004), William Sheppard, Cromwell's Law Reformer, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-89091-5
- Roberts, Stephen K. (January 2008) [2004]. "Keble, Richard (d. 1683/4)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15233. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Scott, David (January 2008) [2004]. "Widdrington, Thomas". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29358. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Vernon, E. C. (2004) [2004]. "Love, Christopher". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17038. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Whitlocke, Bulstrode (1990), Ruth, Spalding (ed.), The diary of Bulstrode Whitelocke 1605-1675, Records of social and economic history, vol. 13 (illustrated reprint ed.), The British Academy by Oxford University Press, p. 607, ISBN 978-0-19-726080-7
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Hamilton, John Andrew (1892). "Keble, Richard". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 295–296. Cites:
- Foss's Judges of England;
- State Trials, iv. I269, v. 49, 268;
- Gray's Inn Books;
- Wood's Athenae, iv. 575;
- Parl. Hist. iv. 70.