Henry Thring, 1st Baron Thring KCB (3 November 1818 – 4 February 1907), was a British lawyer and civil servant.

Early life

Henry was born in

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on 3 November 1818. He was the second son of Sarah (

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Jenkyns) Thring (1791–1891) and the Rev. John Gale Dalton Thring (1784–1874), the Rector of Alford and later rural Dean for Cary. Among his siblings were

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, Theodore Thring, a Commissioner of Bankruptcy; the schoolmaster Rev.

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, the hymn-writer Rev.

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and the cricketer and barrister

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''Who Was Who'' (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007). Retrieved 5 November 2018. His maternal grandfather was Rev. John Jenkyn of

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. His nephew

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also served as First Parliamentary Counsel from 1903 to 1917 and was knighted in 1908. He was educated at

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and

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Career

Thring was appointed

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when that office was established in 1869, a position he held until 1886. He became known for his role as a parliamentary draftsman and as an innovator in the framing of legislation.aim25.ac.uk THRING, Henry, 1st Baron Thring (1818-1907)
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(CB) in 1872, and promoted to

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(KCB) in 1873. In 1886, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Thring, of Alderhurst in the

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. He was a regular contributor in the

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until 1905. Apart from his career in Parliament he also served on the Council of the

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Personal life

In 1856, he married Elizabeth Cardwell (1822–1897), a daughter of John Cardwell, Esq. Together, they were the parents of one daughter: * Hon. Katharine Annie Thring (1861–1947) who did not marry. Lord Thring, who lived at 5

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Gardens, SW, died in February 1907, aged 88. Upon his death, the barony became extinct.

References

External links

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Henry Thring, 1st Baron Thring (1818-1907), Author

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Thring, Henry Thring, 1st Baron 1818 births 1907 deaths Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Members of the Inner Temple People educated at Shrewsbury School Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath Peers of the United Kingdom created by Queen Victoria Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge First Parliamentary Counsel