Judge
In February 1383, he was made a Justice of the King’s Bench, appointed under King Richard II. This was a hugely important position and one of the highest to which a lawyer could aspire. It entailed his sitting in judgment on cases brought before the King. He was knighted by King Richard in 1387, surely the pinnacle of his career. His greatest claim to fame today, however, is that his daughter Marged or Margaret married Owain Glyndŵr, probably in 1383.
Sir David Hanmer died in late 1387 unaware of the conflict that was to befall his family.
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Famous quotes containing the word judge:
“You that would judge me do not judge alone
This book or that, come to this hallowed place
Where my friends portraits hang and look thereon;
Irelands history in their lineaments trace;
Think where mans glory most begins and ends
And say my glory was I had such friends.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“It is often the case that the man who cant tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“Dear, if you change, Ill never choose again;
Sweet, if you shrink, Ill never think of love;
Fair, if you fail, Ill judge all beauty vain;
Wise, if too weak, moe wits Ill never prove.”
—Unknown. Dear, If You Change (l. 14)