“ As a judge he is most celebrated for his decision in the important privilege case of Stockdale v. Hansard (9 Ad. & El. I.; 11 Ad. & El. 253) , but he was never ranked as a profound lawyer. In 1850 he resigned his chief justiceship and retired into private life. He died on the 26th of September 1854, his title continuing in the direct line.
The Hon. George Denman (1819–1896) , his fourth son, was also a distinguished lawyer, and a judge of the Queen’s Bench from 1872 till his death in 1896. ”

“ DENMAN, THOMAS, 1st Baron (1779–1854) , English judge, was born in London, the son of a well-known physician, on the 23rd of July 1779. He was educated at Eton and St John’s College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1800. Soon after leaving Cambridge he married ”