The foolish judgments of Lord Eldon about one hundred years ago, proscribing the works of Byron and Southey, and the finding by the jury under a charge by Lord Denman that the publication of Shelley's "Queen Mab" was an indictable offense are a warning to all who have to determine the limits of the field within which authors may exercise themselves.
When sentencing the prisoners the judge, Lord Denman, said that Bennett's relations and friends had asked that their lives should be spared.
Pupils who later distinguished themselves include Lord Chief Justice Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman, scholar and translator William Taylor, Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, and archaeologist Sir William Gell.
Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman (1779–1854), British lawyer, judge and politician
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Canberra was named at a ceremony on 12 March 1913 by Lady Denman, the wife of the then Governor-General Lord Denman.
In O'Connell v the Queen, in 1844, he led the majority in quashing the conviction for sedition of Daniel O'Connell.