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| Husband: | Samuel Romilly (1757-1818) | |
| Wife: | Anne Garbett (1773-1818) | |
| Marriage | 3 Jan 1798 | Knill, Herefordshire |
| Name: | Samuel Romilly | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | Peter Romilly (1712-1784) | |
| Mother: | Margaret Garnault (1714-1796) | |
| Birth | 1 Mar 1757 | Frith Street, Soho, London |
| Baptism | c. Mar 1757 (age 0) | Saint Anne Soho, Westminster |
| Death | 2 Nov 1818 (age 61) | Russell Square, London |
| Burial | 11 Nov 1818 | St Michael, Knill, Herefordshire (aged 62) |
| Name: | Anne Garbett | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | Francis Garbett ( -1800) | |
| Mother: | Elizabeth Walsham ( - ) | |
| Birth | 1773 | Knill Court, Herefordshire |
| Baptism | 26 Dec 1773 (age 0) | Knill, Herefordshire |
| Death | 29 Oct 1818 (age 44-45) | Isle of Wight, Hampshire |
| Burial | 11 Nov 1818 | St Michael, Knill, Herefordshire (aged 44) |
Sir Samuel Romilly was an English legal reformer whose chief efforts were devoted to lessening the severity of English criminal law. His attacks on the laws authorizing capital punishment for a host of minor felonies and misdemeanours, such as begging by soldiers and sailors without a permit, were partly successful during his lifetime and contributed to reforms carried out after his death.
Called to the bar in 1783, Romilly became known as the outstanding chancery lawyer in England and served as chancellor of Durham from 1805 to 1815. In 1806 he was appointed solicitor general, entered the House of Commons, and was knighted. Influenced by the libertarianism of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, he supported the French Revolution in its early stages, though conservative reaction in England to that revolution’s excesses subsequently hindered his work. His program for the mitigation of punishment in criminal law was based in part on the criminology of Cesare Beccaria and the utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham. Distressed by the death of his wife, Romilly committed suicide in 1818. His Memoirs appeared in 1840.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sir Samuel Romilly (1757-1818), was the youngest son of Peter Romilly, a Huguenot, and Margaret, daughter of Aime Garnault, a French emigre. Romilly, who was successively the Member of Parliament for Queensborough, Horsham, Wareham, Arundel and Westminster, was an influential law-reformer and philanthopist, whose political theories were inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He campaigned vigorously to reduce the number of cases for which the dealth penalty was applicable and favoured the emancipation of catholics and slaves. Romilly had six sons and one daughter by his wife, Anne, of which the second, John, was created Baron Romilly.
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