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ESTEN, James Christie Pahner, Canadian jurist, born in St. George, Bermuda, 7 November 1805; died in Toronto, Canada, 25 October ]864. He was a grandson of a former attorney general of the Bermudas, and his father was chief justice of those islands for twenty years. The son was educated at the Charter House School, London, called to the bar in Lincoln's Inn, and practiced as a barrister in England. He passed a part of his early life in Virginia, came to Canada in 1836, and on the establishment of the court of chancery there in 1837, became a barrister in it, and in 1849, on the reconstruction of the court, he was constituted one of its judges, and so continued till his death. During his term of office he was never absent from his post, and was acting chancellor for a few years during the illness of Chancellor Blake.
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