Alfred Thesiger
British judge (1838-1880)
Alfred Henry Thesiger (15 July 1838 – 20 Ocober 1880), was a British lawyer and judge.
Early life
Thesiger was the third son of Lord Chancellor Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford, by his wife Anna Maria (née Tinling). He played one first-class cricket match for the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1861.
Career
He was Attorney-General to the Prince of Wales and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1873. In 1877, at the age of 37, he was made a Lord Justice of Appeal and sworn of the Privy Council.
In the summer of 1877 Thesiger, took on the Arbitration of Doctor Thomas Barnardo as his legal counsel at the behest of the Evangelical Lord Chancellor, Lord Cairns. (p. 105 "Slumming" Seth Koven)
Judgments
The Household Fire and Carriage Accident Insurance Company (Limited) v Grant (1878–79) LR 4 Ex D 216 – English contract law concerning the "postal rule", and containing an important dissenting judgment by Bramwell LJ, who wished to dispose of it.
Wheeldon v Burrows 1879) LR 12 Ch D 31; [1874-90] All ER Rep. 669; (1879) 48 LJ Ch 853; (1879) 41 LT 327 – English land law case on the implying of grant easements.
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