 In 1799 he became a serjeant-at-law, and was for some time recorder of Maidstone.In May 1808 he was made a judge of the King's Bench, in the place of Sir Soulden Lawrence, and was knighted on the 11th of the same month.After sitting in this court for more than twenty-two years, he was at his own request removed to the Court of Exchequer in November 1830.