Sir Richard Torin Kindersley (1792–1879) was an English lawyer and judge. He was born, the eldest son of

Nathaniel Edward Kindersley Nathaniel Edward Kindersley (2 February 1763 – 16 February 1831) was an English civil service officer to the British East India Company. He is known for being the first translator of the Tirukkural into English in 1794. Family Nathaniel Edwar ...

, at

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, India, in 1792, and educated at Haileybury and

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, becoming a fellow in 1815 and M.A. in 1817. He was called to the Bar ( Lincoln's Inn) in 1818 and developed a

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practice. From 1847 to 1851, he served as Chancellor of the County Palatine of Durham. In 1848 he was appointed Master in Chancery, followed by an appointment as

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in 1851. He had a reputation as a sound equity judge. He retired in 1866, but continued to sit on the

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Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge 19th-century English judges Members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council 1792 births 1879 deaths Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Richard Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'stro ...

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