Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Sugden, (Sir) Edward Burtenshaw

by Joseph Foster

Sugden, (Sir) Edward Burtenshaw, Lord St. Leonards, created D.C.L. 7 June, 1853 (son of Richard, of London, gent.), bar.-at-law, Lincoln's Inn, 1807, bencher & K.C. 1822, solicitor-general 1829-30, knighted 4 June, 1829, lord chancellor of Ireland 1835, 1841-6, M.P. Weymouth 1828-31, St. Mawes 1831-2, Ripon 1837-41, lord high chancellor of Great Britain 1852, and created Baron St. Leonards 1 March, 1852, LL.D. Cambridge, 1835, P.C., died 29 Jan., 1875. See Foster's Peerage.