Modern English biography

KER, CHARLES HENRY BELLENDEN (son of John Bellenden Ker, botanist 1765–1842). _b._ about 1785; barrister L.I. 28 June 1814; a member of the boundary commission 1830–2, of the public records commission, of the criminal and statute law commission 1833; head of the board to consider consolidation of statute law 1853 and of the royal commission on same subject 1854; suggested and prepared the Leases and Sales of settled estates act 1856 and Lord Cranworth’s act 1860; conveyancing counsel to court of chancery 1852–60; recorder of Andover 1842 to July 1855; one of the first private growers of orchids; wrote a series of articles in the Gardeners’ Chronicle under the pseudonym ‘Dodman’; F.R.S. to 1831; lived at Cannes 1860 to death; author of The question of registry or no registry considered, with reference to the interests of landholders 1830; Shall we register our deeds?