1st Earl of Cottenham PC KC. He was a British lawyer, judge and politician. He was twice Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. With his second wife Hannah Weller he had two sons, of whom the younger, Lucas Pepys (1743-1830), became one of George III's physicians and received a baronetcy in 1784. The elder son William Weller Pepys (1741-1825), the father of this Member, was a master in chancery, 1775-1807, and was made a baronet in 1801. Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was called to the bar, Lincoln's Inn in 1804. He sat in Parliament, successively, for Higham Ferrers and Malton, was appointed Solicitor General in 1834, and in the same year became Master of the Rolls. On the formation of Lord Melbourne's second administration in April 1835, the great seal was for a time in commission, but eventually Cottenham, who had been one of the commissioners, was appointed Lord Chancellor (January 1836) and was at the same time elevated to the peerage as Baron Cottenham, of Cottenham in the County of Cambridge.
1st Earl of Cottenham PC KC. He was a British lawyer, judge and politician. He was twice Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. With his second wife Hannah Weller he had two sons, of whom the younger, Lucas Pepys (1743-1830), became one of George III's physicians and received a baronetcy in 1784. The elder son William Weller Pepys (1741-1825), the father of this Member, was a master in chancery, 1775-1807, and was made a baronet in 1801. Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was called to the bar, Lincoln's Inn in 1804. He sat in Parliament, successively, for Higham Ferrers and Malton, was appointed Solicitor General in 1834, and in the same year became Master of the Rolls. On the formation of Lord Melbourne's second administration in April 1835, the great seal was for a time in commission, but eventually Cottenham, who had been one of the commissioners, was appointed Lord Chancellor (January 1836) and was at the same time elevated to the peerage as Baron Cottenham, of Cottenham in the County of Cambridge.
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