Peter Erle PC QC (1795 – 29 January 1877) was an English

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Biography

Erle was the fourth son of the Reverend Christopher Erle of Gillingham, Dorset, and brother of Sir William Erle. He matriculated at

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in 1812, where he graduated in 1816. Having been

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by the

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in 1854, and was for some time one of the

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ers, being appointed first Chief Commissioner in 1853, and remaining the longest-serving Chief Commissioner to date. He was elected Treasurer of the Middle Temple in 1863. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1872.

Personal life

Erle married in 1824 Mary Fearon, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Francis Fearon. They had one son, Twynihoe William Erle (died 1908), a barrister.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Erle, Peter English barristers 1795 births 1877 deaths Alumni of New College, Oxford Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom 19th-century English lawyers