1. Sir John Bernard Bosanquet KS PC was a British judge.
10 Facts About John Bosanquet
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John Bosanquet was born to Samuel Bosanquet, the governor of the Bank of England, and his wife Eleanor, and was educated at Eton College before being accepted into Christ Church, Oxford.
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John Bosanquet gained his BA on 9 June 1795 and his MA on 20 March 1800.
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John Bosanquet became a member of Lincoln's Inn on 22 January 1794 and was called to the bar on 9 May 1800, joining the home circuit.
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John Bosanquet attended the Essex sessions, of which his father was chairman.
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John Bosanquet became general counsel to the East India Company in 1814, and the Bank of England in 1819.
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John Bosanquet was made a Serjeant-at-Law on 22 November 1814, and from that time came prominently before the public in the numerous bank prosecutions which he conducted with great discretion for thirteen years.
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John Bosanquet turned down the position of Chief Justice of Bengal in 1824 and was made a King's Serjeant in 1827.
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John Bosanquet became a member of the Privy Council on 4 September 1833, and sat on the Judicial Committee regularly until 1840.
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John Bosanquet retired from the Common Pleas in 1842 due to ill-health, and died on 25 September 1847 at Firs, Hampstead Heath.