Hon. John Tayloe Lomax died in
Fredericksburg, Va, on the 1st inst., He was born in
Caroline county, in 1781, and was a leading member of the bar of
Fredericksburg in 1825, at which time he was called to the law professorship at the University of Virginia, which he filled for some five years. At the death of
Judge Brokenbrough,
Mr. Lomax was called from the
University and appointed
Judge of the Supreme Court, holding his first court, in
Spotsylvania, in May, 1831, and continued in the discharge of judicial duties up to December, 1856, when he forwarded his resignation as
Judge to the
Governor, to take effect the month following, 20th of January, 1857. As a Judge he was eminent, as a private gentleman respected and loved for his amenity of manner.
As an example of Christian life, as a patriot in our period of trouble, the community in which he lived and the
State has sustained an irreparable loss.
