Frederic Boase, Modern English Biography (1897)
“ LONSDALE, James John (2 son of James Lonsdale the artist 1777-1839) , b. 5 April 1810; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1836; sec. to criminal law commission 1842; recorder of Folkestone 5 Aug 1847 to death; judge of circuit No. 11 West Riding of Yorkshire 14 Feb. 1855 to 19 March 1867; judge of circuit No. 48 Kent 19 March 1867 to March 1884; author of The statute criminal law of England 1839; The odes of Horace. Book 1 a verse translation 1879. d. The Cottage, Sandgate, Kent 11 Nov. 1886. Law Times, vol. 82 p. 111 (1886) . ”
