Sir Richard Allibond or Allibone (1636–1688) was an English judge and justice of the King's Bench.

Biography

He was a son of Job Allibond, and grandson of Peter Allibond, D.D., the rector of Chenies,

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. Job, having become a

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, was disinherited, but he obtained a considerable place in the

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, which afforded him a comfortable subsistence and enabled him to give his children a liberal education. Richard, born in 1636, was entered as a student at the

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, on 24 March 1652. On returning to England he began his legal education at

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in 1663. He was listed as a

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there in 1670. In 1686 he was selected by King

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to be one of his counsel, and was knighted. On 28 April 1687 he was made a serjeant-at-law, and then appointed to fill the place of a puisne judge in the King's Bench, vacated by the discharge of Francis Wythens. The appointment was very unpopular in consequence of Allibond being a Catholic, and Lord Macaulay asserts that he was even more ignorant of the law than Sir Robert Wright, who had been appointed Lord Chief Justice of England. At the famous

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jury, to speak against the verdict of acquittal in the case of the bishops, and to stigmatise their petition to the King as a libel that tended to sedition. His death, which occurred in the following month on 22 August 1688 at his house in Brownlow Street,

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, saved him from the

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with which he would probably have been visited if he had lived until after the

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. He was buried on 4 September 1688 near the grave of his mother at

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, where a sumptuous monument was erected to his memory. His wife was Barbara Blakiston, of the family of Sir Francis Blakiston of

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, Durham, of the Blakiston baronets

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Allibond, Richard Justices of the King's Bench 1636 births 1688 deaths