3-021-235 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mr. Baron Cleasby, 1869. Engraving from a photograph by John Watkins. 'The newly-appointed Judge of the Court of Exchequer, the Hon. Sir Anthony Cleasby, of The Legers, Surrey, is a son of the late Stephen Cleasby, Esq., by his wife, Mary, second daughter of George John, Esq., of Penzance, Cornwall. He was born in 1804, and was educated at Eton, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1827, and M.A. in 1830. He was called to the Bar by the Hon. Society of the Inner Temple, June 10, 1831, and went the Northern Circuit, where, and in London, he obtained considerable practice, especially in mercantile cases. His professional reputation was that of a thoroughly learned, sound, and sagacious lawyer, and his amiable and courteous disposition and manners have made him generally popular. He became a Q..C. in 1861, and was made a Serjeant-at-Law, and raised to the judicial bench as a Baron of the Exchequer, in 1868, and knighted. Sir Anthony married, in 1836, Lucy Susan, youngest daughter of the late Walter Fawkes, Esq., of Famley Hall, Yorkshire'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.