Charles Law (British politician)

The Honourable Charles Ewan Law QC (14 June 1792 – 13 August 1850), was a judge and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Law was the second son of Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough, by Anne Towry, daughter of Captain George Philip Towry, of Shipley, Northumberland.

[2] Law was returned to parliament as one of two representatives for Cambridge University in 1835, a seat he held until his death in 1850.

[1][3] He succeeded Newman Knowlys as Recorder of London in 1833 and was a Queen's Counsel.

[1] Law married Elizabeth Sophia (1789–1864), daughter of Sir Edward Nightingale, 10th Baronet, first on 8 May 1811 at Gretna Green, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and again on 22 May 1811.