Law was a benefactor to the city of Lichfield. In 1838 he gave the statue of Samuel Johnson in the Market Square. Chancellor Law's Fountain in Beacon Park was unveiled in 1871.[2]
Law died at Lichfield on 22 February 1876.[1] The monument to Law and his wife in the churchyard of St Michael on Greenhill, Lichfield is a listed building; it originally had a clock illuminated by gas.[3]
A Catechetical Exposition of the Apostles' Creed, London, 1825.
The Poor Man's Garden, or a few brief Rules for Regulating Allotments of Land to the Poor for Potatoe Gardens, London, 1830; 4th edit. 1831.
The Acts for Building and Promoting the Building of Additional Churches in Populous Parishes arranged and harmonised, London, 1841; 3rd edit. 1853.
The Ecclesiastical Statutes at large, extracted from the great body of the Statute Law and arranged under separate heads, 5 vols. London, 1847.
Lectures on the Ecclesiastical Law of England, pt. i. London, 1861.
Lectures on the Office and Duties of Churchwardens, London, 1861.
Materials for a Brief History of ... Queen's College, Birmingham; with a Supplement and Appendices, arranged by Mr. Chancellor Law, Lichfield, 1869.
Law also published Forms of Ecclesiastical Law, London, 1831 (another edit. 1844); it was a translation of the first part of Thomas Oughton's Ordo Judiciorum,. There were with it materials from other jurists and authorities: Francis Clerke's Praxis; Henry Conset's Practice of the Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Courts; John Ayliffe's Parergon; William Cockburn's Clerk's Assistant in the Practice of the Ecclesiastical Courts; and Edmund Gibson's Codex juris ecclesiastici Anglicani.[1][4]
Family
On 16 December 1820 Grey married Lady Henrietta Charlotte Grey (1799–1866), eldest daughter of George Grey, 6th Earl of Stamford.[1] They had four children.[5]