On his retirement the Bar paid tribute to his good qualities but added several qualifications: "there might have been on the Bench lawyers more profound, reasoners more acute..." In his first decade on the Bench he had to endure the continual denigration of Jonathan Christian, the Lord Justice of Appeal in Chancery.
Upon retirement, the Bar praised the judge's good qualities but also included several caveats: "there may have been other judges with greater intellect or more profound legal reasoning..." During his first decade on the bench, he faced constant attacks from Jonathan Christian, the Lord Justice of Appeal in Chancery.