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unusual facts about Henry Bickersteth, 1st Baron Langdale



Henry Bickersteth, 1st Baron Langdale

A change of scene being deemed necessary to insure his recovery, he obtained, through Dr. Batty, the post of medical attendant to Edward, fifth earl of Oxford, who was then on a tour in Italy.

By the advice of his uncle, Dr. Robert Batty, in October 1801, he went to Edinburgh to pursue his medical studies, and in the following year was called home to take his father's practice in his temporary absence.

He married Lady Jane Elizabeth Harley, daughter of his patron the Earl of Oxford by licence on 17 August 1835, in St. James, Paddington, London.

Lancelot Shadwell

During this period he twice filled the office of a commissioner of the great seal: from 23 April 1835 to 16 Jan. 1836 in conjunction with Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham, and Sir John Bosanquet, and again from 19 June to 15 July 1850, in conjunction with Henry Bickersteth, 1st Baron Langdale and Sir R. M. Rolfe.


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