George Denman and Thomas Denman brown plaque

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# 49 Russell Square Standing before this elegant townhouse in the heart of Bloomsbury, you're looking at the epicentre of judicial authority in early 19th-century England—the home where Lord Thomas Denman shaped British law as Lord Chief Justice during a transformative period from 1816 to 1834. Wit...

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49 Russell Square

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Lord Denman Lord Chief Justice of England lived in this house 1816-1834, and his son Rt Hon George Denman a Judge of the High Court 1872-1892 was born here 1819.