The Sleigh Family of Emma Warner Sleigh
This document is a compilation of things found on the internet for the Sleigh family that married a Lacey. I started looking for “warner sleigh” and discovered information about three generations. My starting point is Emma Warner Sleigh who married Ernest Matthew Lacey; they included Warner and Sleigh in the middle names of their children. Emma’s father was William Arthur Warner Sleigh, his father was William Campbell Sleigh, and his father was William Willcocks Sleigh (this last parent was news to me).
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The Sleigh Family of Emma Warner Sleigh
William Arthur Warner Sleigh 1
Admitted 1854 to St. Paul’s School 1
Called to the Bar 1864 2
Divorce 1867 from Rachel Fanny Sleigh 3
Patent 1868 3
Marriage 1878 to Georgina Philipina Kuhn 3
Legal Case 1870 4
Legal Case 1870: The Trial of George Woolgar, Police Constable 4
Legal Case: Arsenical Violet Powder Case 4
Legal Case 1877 5
Legal Case 1879: Kate Webster - The "Barnes Mystery" 6
Reminiscences of Montagu Williams 7
Reminiscences by William Andrews 8
WAWS Remembered 10
Unknown Mrs. Warner-Sleigh 10
William Campbell Sleigh 11
William Campbell Sleigh on Wikipedia 11
WCS on Australian Dictionary of Biography 11
WCS Biography 12
WCS In Australia 13
WCS the Author 1850 13
WCS the Author 1858 13
William Willcocks Sleigh 13
Birth? 13
WWS in The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science By Roger Cooter 14
WWS the Author 1834 14
WWS the Author 1837 14
WWS the Author 1843 14
Patents for Unworkable Devices by WWS 14
WWS Citation 15
WWS Death 15
WWS Death in The Gentleman's Magazine 15
Burrows Willcocks Arthur Sleigh 15
BWAS Biography on Wikipedia 15
BWAS Biography 15
BWAS Biography 16
Dictionary of Literary Biography on Burrows Willcocks Arthur Sleigh 17
Patent 1868 18
On RootsWeb 18
Robert Bignell 18
The History of the Trocadero 18
Cora Pearl at Wikipedia 19
Adderly Willcocks Sleigh 19
Royal Order of the Tower and Sword 19
AWS as Author 1840 19
AWS as Author 1847 19
AWS as Author 1851 20
AWS as Author 20
Patent 1854 20
Patent 1865 20
Patent 1869 21
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The Sleigh Family of Emma Warner Sleigh
William Arthur Warner Sleigh
WAWS was a lawyer who went by the name of Warner Sleigh. I found many accounts of court cases where Mr. Warner Sleigh was the counsel for the defense. I include only some them here.
Admitted 1854 to St. Paul’s School
The Admission Registers of St. Paul’s School
from 1758 to 1876, ed. by R.B. Gardiner
London: George Bell & Sons, 1884.
Called to the Bar 1864
The Solicitors' Journal and Reporter
http://books.google.com/books?id=Ol0qAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=%22william+arthur+warner+sleigh%22&source=bl&ots=JR_BqzwZnY&sig=K_OsPPG-YG7oa3n7YsL5OvUWpG4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#PPA68,M1
Divorce 1867 from Rachel Fanny Sleigh
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=7&CATID=-3059670&FullDetails=True&j=1&Gsm=2008-08-08
J 77 Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, later Supreme Court of Judicature: Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Files
Subseries within J 77
J 77/76
Covering dates 1867
Divorce Court File: 496. Appellant: William Arthur Warner Sleigh. Respondent: Rachel Fanny Sleigh. Co-respondent: [...] Braithwaite and [...] Minister Shaw. Type: Husband's petition for divorce [hd].
Patent 1868
Alphabetical index of patentees and applicants for patents of invention, by ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=1z5-WHptHQ4C&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=%22william+arthur+warner+sleigh%22&source=bl&ots=D6y2o0w4rW&sig=78zujOszDTEIrhuHk8uLsDU_6aw&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPA99,M1
Marriage 1878 to Georgina Philipina Kuhn
The Law Times
Published by Office of The Law times, 1878
http://books.google.com/books?id=BZgDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132&dq=%22william+arthur+warner+sleigh%22&source=bl&ots=tMvRG402AS&sig=vExOWMav4wwotGzCmhQDzMaIyPI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result
Legal Case 1870
Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=k7oDAAAAYAAJ
Legal Case 1870: The Trial of George Woolgar, Police Constable
From The Times Issue 12 January, 1870 Page 11 Column B
George Woolgar, 22, a metropolitan policeman of the N division, was charged with a highway robbery with violence. Mr. G. S. Griffiths was counsel for the prosecution; Mr. Warner Sleigh for the defence.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, accompanied with a strong recommendation to mercy on the ground of discrepancies in a portion of the evidence. . . . On being asked in the usual way if he has anything to say why sentence should not be passed the prisoner replied that he was not the man.
The judge could find no reason for mercy and sentenced the prisoner to seven years in prison.
Legal Case: Arsenical Violet Powder Case
http://www.rsc.org/delivery/_ArticleLinking/DisplayArticleForFree.cfm?doi=AN878030330b&JournalCode=AN
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Legal Case 1877
Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=4IAaAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA87&lpg=RA1-PA87&dq=%22warner+sleigh%22&source=web&ots=q8eqiW2mzE&sig=fWUFvrWYXq5Td99yGk3xViPDGFw&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result
Divorce Bills in the Imperial Parliament
By James Roberts, Great Britain Parliament
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Legal Case 1879: Kate Webster - The "Barnes Mystery"
http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/webster.html
Kate was a rather incompetent career criminal who had served several prison terms for various thefts and offences of dishonesty, both in her native Ireland and in England. These included a period of 12 months in 1877 in London's Wandsworth prison, where she would ultimately die.
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The murder.
On the 13th of January 1879, Kate entered the service of Mrs Julia Martha Thomas at No. 2 Vine Cottages, Park Road, Richmond. . . . In her confession prior to her execution, Kate described the events as follows : "We had an argument which ripened into a quarrel, and in the height of my anger and rage I threw her from the top of the stairs to the ground floor. She had a heavy fall. I felt that she was seriously injured and I became agitated at what had happened, lost all control of myself and to prevent her screaming or getting me into trouble, I caught her by the throat and in the struggle choked her." At her trial, the prosecution painted a rather different picture. Mrs. Thomas' next door neighbour, Mrs. Ives, heard the noise of the fall followed by silence and at the time thought no more of it. Little was she to suspect what was to happen next. Kate, of course, had the problem of what to do with the body but instead of just leaving it and escaping, she decided to dismember it and then dispose of the parts in the river. She set about this grim task with a will, firstly cutting off the dead woman's head with a razor and meat saw and then hacking off her limbs. She par-boiled the limbs and torso in a copper on the stove and burned Mrs. Thomas' organs and intestines. Even Kate was revolted by all this and the enormous amount of blood everywhere. But she stuck to the job and systematically burnt or boiled all of the body parts and then packed the remains into a wooden box, except for the head and one foot for which she could not find room. It has been said that Kate even tried to sell the fatty remains from boiling the body as dripping.
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Trial.
Her trial opened on the 2nd of July 1879 before Mr. Justice Denman at the Central Criminal Court (the Old Bailey) next door to Newgate. In view of the seriousness of the crime, the Crown was led by the Solicitor General, Sir Hardinge Gifford, and Kate was defended by Mr. Warner Sleigh.
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Late on the afternoon of Tuesday, the 8th of July, the jury retired to consider their verdict, returning just over an hour later to pronounce her guilty.
Reminiscences of Montagu Williams
Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=-WINAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=%22warner+sleigh%22&source=web&ots=5uo4brKMsp&sig=ksP31m9RYxQ4UdRpIZwVYEJmJas&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result
Later Leaves, being the further reminiscences of
By Montagu Stephen Williams, Q. C.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1891.
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Reminiscences by William Andrews
The Lawyer in History, Literature, and Humour
By William Andrews
Littleton, Colorado: Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1982
WAWS Remembered
Law and Laughter
By George A. Morton, Donald Macleod Malloch
Unknown Mrs. Warner-Sleigh
At the seasideAuthors - Mrs. (Elizabeth Caroline) Grey~Mrs Warner-Sleigh / English
a. 1880?
DUTTON'S 'SPARKLING' SERIES.
[Illustration]
AT THE
SEASIDE.
By Mrs Grey.
Verses by
Mrs Warner-Sleigh
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY, 39, WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET, NEW YORK.
William Campbell Sleigh
William Campbell Sleigh on Wikipedia
Sleigh, eldest son of William Willcocks Sleigh, M.D., of Bull House, Buckinghamshire, and subsequently of Dublin, was born in Dublin in 1818. He matriculated from St. Mary Hall, Oxford, on 9 Feb. 1843, but took no degree.
He was entered as a student of the Middle Temple on 18 Jan. 1843, and on 30 Jan. 1846 he was called to the bar. He went the home circuit, attended the central criminal court, and the London, Middlesex, and Kent sessions. On 2 Nov. 1868 he was created a serjeant-at-law, being the last person not a judge received into Serjeants' Inn. Like his fellow-serjeants Parry, Ballantine, and Huddleston (afterwards Baron Huddleston), he enjoyed a lucrative practice at the Old Bailey, and took part in many leading criminal trials, being a most effective cross-examiner. In 1871 he accepted the first brief for the claimant Arthur Orton, alias Roger Tichborne, in his civil action. He was long retained as leading counsel to the Bank of England, Hardinge Giffard (afterwards Lord Halsbury) being his junior. As a conservative he unsuccessfully contested Lambeth 5 May 1862, Huddersfield 20 March 1868, Frome 17 Nov. 1868, and Newark 1 April 1870. In 1877 he emigrated to Australia, and on 21 March of that year was called to the bar of Victoria; but his claim to precedence as a serjeant-at-law was not allowed. He continued to practise in Melbourne until 1886, when he returned to England. He died at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, on 23 Jan. 1887.
Publications
Among his publications were: 1. ‘Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister,’ 1850. 2. ‘The Grand Jury System subversive of the Moral Interests of Society,’ 1852. 3. ‘A Handy Book on Criminal Law, applicable chiefly to Commercial Transactions,’ 1858. 4. ‘Personal Wrongs and Legal Remedies,’ 1860.
Serjeant-at-law (postnominal SL) was an order of barristers at the English or Irish bar. Serjeants-at-law (servientes ad legem), or Sergeants Counters, were the highest order of counsel. For the 600 years prior to 1873 the judges of the King's Bench, Court of Common Pleas, and Exchequer were always serjeants. "Only serjeants were sent out on circuit and associated as equals with the justices of the Queen's Bench and Common Pleas at Serjeant's Inn, where the serjeants as a class formed a professional collegiate society distinct from the Inns of Court and the lesser ranks of the legal profession". All who held the office of Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, were serjeants. Serjeants-at-Law had a valuable monopoly in the Court of Common Pleas until 1846, though they lost their monopoly in other courts in earlier years
WCS on Australian Dictionary of Biography
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060154b.htm
SLEIGH, WILLIAM CAMPBELL (1818-1887), lawyer and politician, was born in Dublin, eldest son of William Willcocks Sleigh, medical practitioner, and his wife Sarah, née Campbell. Although matriculating at Oxford (1843) after private education, he entered the Middle Temple, and was called to the Bar on 30 January 1846. Aged 24, he had married Amelia Warner at Waterperry, Oxfordshire, England, on 25 January 1843. His celebrated legal career included acting briefly for Arthur Orton, the Tichborne claimant. On 2 November 1868 Sleigh became a serjeant-at-law, then the most eminent status among common law counsel.
Suffering from sciatica, Sleigh visited Australia in 1871 for convalescence, bearing introductions from J. B. Darvall describing him as 'a gentleman of fortune a barrister of great reputation and a very agreeable person'. Sleigh and his wife decided to settle in Australia when, on returning to England, his health again declined. On 8 March 1877 he was admitted to the New South Wales Bar. In Sydney he found he was an unwelcome rival in the legal profession; he moved to Melbourne and was admitted to the Victorian Bar on 21 March. Being there accorded the courtesy title of serjeant he became the only serjeant-at-law to practise in Australia. A 'tall, “wiry”, clean-shaven gentleman, wearing a red necktie—elderly in years, but young in style and spirit', he used a slight deafness to his advantage in court. Melbourne solicitors clamoured to brief him, and his success allegedly caused such resentment at the Bar that, by 1880, he moved to Launceston. Admitted to the Tasmanian Bar without the usual formality on 11 March, he opened chambers and rented an elaborate house that he filled with magnificent furniture. Again he was eagerly retained as counsel, especially for criminal defences.
Always interested in politics, he had three times failed to enter the House of Commons. But in April 1880 as an independent he won the Deloraine seat in the Tasmanian House of Assembly. Criticized by Hobart's press as being a 'bird of passage', he dubbed his narrow victory 'a grand triumph over attempted Ministerial dictation' by W. R. Giblin's ministry. His parliamentary speeches were acclaimed but his efforts to ventilate local issues were often frustrated. He assessed parliament's performance as 'singularly abortive with regard to some measures of great public utility'.
Obliged to visit England in 1881, Sleigh tired of Tasmania and lived more frequently in Melbourne on his return. The death at sea in 1882 of his only child William, a barrister, probably influenced him to give up public life and Australia. He left that year and died at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, on 23 January 1887; his wife survived him.
Select Bibliography
J. L. Forde, The Story of the Bar of Victoria (Melb, 1913); Law Times, 12 Feb 1887; 'Obituary', Times (London), 25 Jan 1887, p 10; Deas Thomson papers (State Library of New South Wales); Sleigh file and Supreme Court papers (Archives Office of Tasmania). More on the resources
Author: J. M. Bennett
Print Publication Details: J. M. Bennett, 'Sleigh, William Campbell (1818 - 1887)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, Melbourne University Press, 1976, pp 135-136.
WCS Biography
Men-at-the-bar
a biographical hand-list of the members of the various inns of court
By Joseph Foster
London: Haxell, Watson, and Viney Limited, 1885
http://books.google.com/books?id=FWkNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA429&lpg=PA429&dq=%22william+willcocks+sleigh%22&source=bl&ots=O4bTdEAkb8&sig=ZDfZmhbyXHKnna8xq7IrMbJWY3E&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result