Henry Spencer Law DL (10 May 1802 – 15 July 1885)

He was the fifth son of Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough, and Anne Towry. He graduated from Cambridge University with a Master of Arts (M.A.).

He was a practising barrister at the Inner Temple, and was called to the bar in Michaelmas term, 1833.^[1] He served in the Life Guards and 28th Regiment. Law was a barrister and Private Secretary to his brother Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, when First Lord of the Admiralty in 1846 and President of the Board of Control in 1858.^[2][3]

He was appointed as a justice of the Liberty of the Cinque Ports in 1850.^[4] He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) of Kent, to which he was appointed in 1853.^[5] He was also Clerk of the Docquets (or Dockets) until the abolition of that office, when he was awarded a pension.^[3]

Law married on 16 May 1839 Dorothea Anne Rochfort (d. 25 November 1871), eldest daughter of Col. John Staunton Rochfort, of Clogrennane Castle, County Carlow, by his wife Mary Burgh,^[2] and had issue:

1. Edward Downes Law, 5th Baron Ellenborough
2. Horatio "Horace" John Law born 12 October 1843, died 2 July 1855 in Lowndes Street, Middlesex, and was buried at Kensal Green.^[6]
3. Cecil Henry Law, 6th Baron Ellenborough
4. Louisa Isabella Law (died on 14 October 1899)
5. Hon. Ethel Beatrice Law (granted the style and precedence of a Baron's daughter by royal warrant 1902, Sister of the Community of Bethany, Lloyd's Square, London WC1, and died on 13 November 1937)^[2]

Law died on 15 July 1885 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery.