George Nares (judge)

He was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford, was admitted a member of the Inner Temple on 19 October 1738, and was called to the bar on 12 June 1741.

[1] Lord Apsley appointed Nares a justice of the court of common pleas, and he was sworn in on 26 January 1771; he was knighted on the following day.

After holding office for over 15 years, Nares died at Ramsgate on 20 July 1786, and was buried at Eversley, Hampshire, where there was a monument to his memory.

[1] Nares married, on 23 September 1751, Mary, third daughter of Sir John Strange, master of the rolls; she died on 6 August 1782, aged 55.

Their eldest son, John, a magistrate at Bow Street and a bencher of the Inner Temple, died on 16 December 1816, and was the grandfather of George Strong Nares the Arctic explorer.