He was the grandson of Sir James Mansfield, Solicitor-General and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
Charles Pratt (1714–1794), Baron Camden from 1765 and 1st Earl Camden from 1786, Attorney General, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Lord Chancellor, lived at Camden Place from c.1760.
One member of the family was the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1289, and another was a confidential retainer to the Black Prince.
The House of Lords asked a panel of judges, presided over by Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, a series of hypothetical questions about the defence of insanity.
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It was created on 22 May 1801 for Sir Richard Arden, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and former Master of the Rolls.
Guilford had been an eminent lawyer, Solicitor-General (1671), Attorney-General (1673), and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (1675), and in 1679 was made a member of the Council of Thirty and, on its dissolution, of the Cabinet.
The manor, owned by the Bishop of London, was occupied by the Frowyk family in the 15th century; Sir Thomas Frowyk, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas was born there in 1460.
In 1768, he married Maria Wilmot, the daughter of Sir John Eardley Wilmot, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
Wynford was the son of William Best, 1st Baron Wynford, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and his wife, Mary Anne, daughter of Jerome Knapp Junior of Chilton in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), Clerk of the Haberdashers' Company, by his second wife, Sarah, daughter and eventual heiress of George Noyes of Southcote, Berkshire & Andover.
He is known to have been outraged at being forced to yield precedence to Dominick Sarsfield, 1st Viscount Sarsfield, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, " a discourtesy never before offered to one in my position".
Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet (died 1625), English Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
John Eardley Wilmot PC (1709–1792), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1766–1771
Peter King, 1st Baron King, a Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Lord Chancellor of England
Thomas de Multon, Lord of Multon, Judge, High Sheriff of Lincolnshire and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.