Richard Cayley

After serving for a period as Queen's Advocate, he succeeded Sir John Budd Phear as Chief Justice.

In giving his ruling on this case, Chief Justice Cayley said, "To hold at this date, for the first time, that a practice, which has so long been sanctioned by the Courts and acquiesced in by the Government, is bad in law,...would [lead to] widespread confusion and ...in many cases to injustice."

[7] After retirement he held the office of Justice of the Peace for the counties of Northamptonshire and Rutland.

[8] He was a member of the original committee responsible for the foundation, in 1889, of the Old Stamfordian Club for old boys of his alma mater.

They had several children, including a daughter Adeline Matilda Cayley who married in 1902 William Sidney Hargreaves and Dorothy Mary Cayley, the distinguished mycologist who identified the viral origin of tulip fire.