Name Francis Holt | Role Author | |
Books The Law of Libel: In which is Contained a General History of this Law in the Ancient Codes, and of Its Introduction, and Successive Alterations, in the Law of England : Comprehending a Digest of All the Leading Cases Upon Libels, from the Earliest to the Present Time Education | ||
Francis Ludlow Holt (1780 – 29 September 1844) was a legal and dramatic author.
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Life
Francis Ludlow is cited as born in 1780, the son of the Rev. Ludlow Holt, LL.D., of Watford, Hertfordshire, the author of some sermons published in 1780-1. A baptism is cited for 1779 in Watford. He was elected a king’s scholar of Westminster School in 1794, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1798.
He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple 27 January 1809, and went on the northern circuit. He became a king’s counsel and bencher of the Inner Temple in 1831, and treasurer of that inn in 1840. He was an Exchequer Bill Loan Commissioner, and was vice-chancellor of the county palatine of Lancaster from 1826 till his death. He received the appointment from Lord Bexley, on the retirement of Sir Giffin Wilson. He was succeeded by Horace Twiss, esq. Q.C.
Holt died on 29 September 1844 at Earls Terrace, Kensington. In 1809, by licence he married Jane Bell, a niece of John Bell, proprietor of Bell's Weekly Messenger, of which he was for many years the principal editor.