Henry Spencer Law

Henry Spencer Law was the fifth son of Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough, and Anne Towry. He graduated from Cambridge University with a Master of Arts (M.A.). He was a practising barrister at the Inner Temple, and was called to the bar in Michaelmas term, 1833. He served in the Life Guards and 28th Regiment. Law was a barrister and Private Secretary to his brother Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, when First Lord of the Admiralty in 1846 and President of the Board of Control in 1858. He was appointed as a justice of the Liberty of the Cinque Ports in 1850. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) of Kent, to which he was appointed in 1853. He was also Clerk of the Docquets until the abolition of that office, when he was awarded a pension.