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William Burge (1786 – 12 November 1849) was a British lawyer and Privy Councillor. BiographyWilliam Burge matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford in 1803[1] and was admitted to the Inner Temple being called to the bar in 1808. He then joined the Colonial Service, being stationed to Jamaica, where he served for 12 years as Attorney General. He was involved in a case that was to be overturned by the British Government. Louis Celeste Lecesne and John Escoffery were arrested on 7 October 1823 under the Alien Act by a warrant of the Duke of Manchester, the Governor of Jamaica. They were considered by Burge to be of a dangerous character and to be aliens as they were thought to be Haitians. They had time to raise a writ of Habeas Corpus in the Supreme Court of Jamaica[2] The two were later rearrested and exiled. They travelled to London and had the case overturned. In the course of this action Burge wrote a letter (more like a book) which put forward his view and the facts to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, George Murray.[3] Subsequently, Burge was in practice in London and served as Agent for Jamaica. While claiming to "hate slavery" Burge supported Jamaican Assemblymen who opposed abolition.[https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/burge-william-1786-1849] He became an influential in jurisprudence through his book Commentaries on Colonial and Foreign Laws which went through many editions between 1838 and 1907. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Eye from 1831 to 1832. After that borough was reduced to one seat under the Reform Act 1832, he stood at the 1832 general election in Oldham, but did not win a seat.[4] Works
References1. ^Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Burge, William 2. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=pN4KAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP9&lpg=PP9&dq=lecesne+lushington&source=web&ots=KvsIICq6f8&sig=4UI4CwNjiqQ2nGUADmvvNemKEB4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPA28,M1 The Anti-slavery Reporter], Zachary Macaulay, Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery, pp. 27-31,accessed 12 October 2008 3. ^1 [https://books.google.com/books?id=Lb4NAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA453&lpg=PA453&dq=%22l.c.lecesne%22&source=web&ots=UjrCcqDt-b&sig=XK3I_xPTdHq5wnwXEhgkyrU_FRU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPA479,M1A Letter to the Right Honorable Sir George Murray Relative to the Deportation of Lecesne and Escoffery from Jamaica], William Burge, 1829, accessed 8 October 2008 4. ^{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 |origyear=1977 |edition= 2nd |year=1989 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-26-4}}
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| title = Member of Parliament for Eye | years = 1831–1832 | with = Sir Edward Kerrison | before = Sir Edward Kerrison and Sir Philip Sidney | after = Sir Edward Kerrison }}{{S-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Burge, William}} 10 : 1786 births|1849 deaths|British lawyers|Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford|Members of the Inner Temple|Colonial Legal Service officers|Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies|UK MPs 1831–32|Fellows of the Royal Society|Attorneys General of the Colony of Jamaica |
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