Background
Raymond was the son of the judge Thomas Raymond.
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Raymond was the son of the judge Thomas Raymond.
He was educated at Eton and Christ"s College, Cambridge.
Said to have been admitted to Gray"s Inn aged nine, he became a barrister in 1697 and was admitted at Lincoln"s Inn in 1710. In 1725 he was invested as Privy Counsellor. Raymond, a Tory, was appointed as Lord Chief Justice of the King"s Bench on 2 March 1725, a post he held until his death.
In 1731 he was raised to the peerage as Lord Raymond, Baron of Abbots Langley in the County of Hertford.
In the House of Lords he tried to stop the House of Commons abandoning Law French and replacing it with English. To Raymond, ending the traditional language might lead to other "modernisations" such as Welsh for courts in Wales.
However his opposition failed and in 1733 the courts were anglicised. In 1720 he built for himself a country house and estate at Langleybury 2 miles (32 km) north of Watford in Hertfordshire.
His monogram and his cipher, a griffin in a crown, can still be seen on the exterior of the building.
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