Person
Nicholas Conyngham Tyndal
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- nicholas-conyngham-tyndal-103
- Alternative names
- Right Honourable, Sir, Chief Justice of Common Pleas
- Gender
- Assigned male at birth
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Ethnicity
- White
- Languages
- English
- Occupations
- Judge, Lawyer, Politician
Born at Covall Hall, Chelmsford. Son of Robert Tindal, solicitor of Chelmsford and wife Sarah, daughter of John Pocock of Greenwich. 8th wrangler, gold medal. Admitted to Lincoln’s Inn 1802. Such a celebrated lawyer that he defended the then Queen of the United Kingdom, Caroline of Brunswick, at her trial for adultery in 1820, and was responsible for the inception of the special verdict “Not Guilty by reason of insanity”.
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- Henry Brougham, business
- John Pocock, family member
- Lord Wensleydale, business
- Lord Wensleydale, business