Richard Bligh (1780-1838) was a
chancerybarrister. The son of John Bligh and a cousin of Admiral
William Bligh,[1] he was educated at
Westminster School and
Trinity College, Cambridge. He graduated B.A. in 1803 and M.A. in 1806.[2] He was
called to the bar by the Society of the
Inner Temple on 1 May 1807[3] and was admitted to the Society of
Lincoln's Inn on 17 November 1826.[4] He became an equity draftsman at the chancery bar. He was a hard worker, and had a fair amount of practice in his profession; but a considerable amount of his time was taken up by reporting in the
House of Lords, in which business he was engaged for several years.[2]
Works
His works, in the order of their publication, are:
A Report of the Case of Bills of Exchange made payable at Bankers, as decided in the House of Lords. London. 1821.
Reports of Cases heard in the House of Lords on Appeals and Writs of Error. 10 vols. 1823.[2][5]
Venn and Venn (eds). "Bligh, Richard". Alumni Cantabrigienses. Volume 2: From 1752 to 1900. Part 1. Cambridge University Press. 1940. Reprinted 2011.
Page 298.
Frederic H Forshall. "Richard Bligh". Westminster School: Past and Present. Wyman & Sons. Great Queen Street, London. 1884. Pages
292 and 293.
Joseph Welch. "R Bligh". The List of the Queen's Scholars of St. Peter's College, Westminster. G W Ginger. London. 1852.
Page 452. See also page 451.
Thompson Cooper. "Bligh, Richard". A Biographical Dictionary. George Bell & Sons. York Street, Covent Garden, London. 1890. Volume 1.
Page 238. A New Biographical Dictionary. Macmillan and Co. New York. 1874.
Page 238.
^For reviews of these reports, see "Law Reporting" (1831) 2 The Legal Observer
34 (21 May 1831); "Law Reporting" (1831) 3 The Legal Observer
128 (24 December 1831); and "English Law Reporting" (1831) 3 United States Law Intelligencer and Review
341 (September 1831). For a list of volumes, see Catalogue of the Library of the Great Seal Patent Office, Titles, 1857,
p 179. For further commentary on these reports, see Fox, A Handbook of English Law Reports, 1913, pp
11 & 12.
^For a review of this book, see "Notices of New Books" (1832) 4 The Legal Observer
39 (19 May 1832)