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“ He had commenced his political career as a Whig, but, like many others, he saw in the French Revolution a reason for changing sides, and be- came a supporter of Pitt. On the formation of the Addington ministry in 1801, he was appointed attorney- general, and in the following year he succeeded Lord Kenyon as chief—justice of the King’s Bench. On being raised to the bench he was created a peer, taking his title from the village of Ellenborough in Cumberland, Where his maternal ancestors had long held a small patrimony. ”

“ In 1787 he was appointed principal counsel for \Varren Hastings in the celebrated impeachment tr-ial befom thP House of Lords, and the ability with which he conducted the defence was universally recognized. ”