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?