Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) by Henry William Pickersgill, 1829 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Bentham, Jeremy (1748–1832), philosopher, jurist, and reformer, was born on 4 February 1748 in Church Lane, Houndsditch, London, the eldest of the seven children of Jeremiah Bentham (1712–1792), attorney, and Alicia Woodward Whitehorne (d. 1759), the eldest daughter of Thomas Grove, a mercer of ...
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Ross Cranston
Borrie, Gordon Johnson, Baron Borrie (1931–2016), legal scholar and government regulator, was born on 13 March 1931 at 73 Selwood Road, Croydon, Surrey, the younger son and fourth of five children of Stanley Borrie (1890–1958), a solicitor in practice in Chancery Lane...
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Sir George Bowyer, seventh baronet (1811–1883) by William Edward Kilburn © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Bowyer, Sir George, seventh baronet (1811–1883), jurist and politician, was born on 8 October 1811 at Radley Park, near Abingdon, Berkshire, the eldest son of Sir George Bowyer, sixth baronet (1783–1860), of Denham Court, Buckinghamshire, and his wife, Anne Hammond, daughter of Captain Sir Andrew Snape Douglas RN...
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Christopher Harvie
Bryce, James, Viscount Bryce (1838–1922), jurist, historian, and politician, was born in Arthur Street, Belfast, on 10 May 1838, the eldest son of James Bryce (1806–1877), schoolteacher and geologist.
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James Bryce, Viscount Bryce (1838–1922) by George Charles Beresford, 1902 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Burke, Aedanus (1743–1802), jurist and politician in the United States of America, was born on 16 June 1743 in co. Galway, Ireland, of unknown parentage, although his parents were presumably Roman Catholics. He attended the English Jesuit seminary at St Omer, France, although later in life he was nominally a protestant....
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Wolfgang Splitter
Chew, Benjamin (1722–1810), jurist and politician in America, was born on 29 November 1722 at Maidstone on West River, Anne Arundel county, Maryland, one of the nine children of Samuel Chew (1693–1744), physician and jurist, and his first wife, Mary Galloway (1697–1734), daughter of ...
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Sir Zelman Cowen (1919–2011) by Wes Walters, 2000 © National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Gift of Marc Besen AO and Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE 2000
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Ross Cranston
Cowen, Sir Zelman (1919–2011), legal scholar, governor-general of Australia, and college head, was born Zelman Cohen on 7 October 1919 in St Kilda, Melbourne, the only son of Bernard Cohen, later Cowen (1892–1975), businessman, and his wife Sara, née Granat (1893–1989). In March 1922 his father changed his surname by deed poll. Both families were part of the mass exodus of Jews from tsarist ...
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Richard Buel jun.
Ellsworth, Oliver (1745–1807), revolutionary politician and jurist in the United States of America, was born on 29 April 1745 in Windsor, Connecticut, the second son of Captain David Ellsworth (1709–1782), farmer and militia officer, and Jemima Leavitt (1721–1790). His father intended him for the ministry and after preparing for college with the noted New Light clergyman ...
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Ewen A. Cameron
Gibb, Andrew Dewar (1888–1974), jurist and Scottish nationalist, was born at the High Street, Paisley, Renfrewshire, on 13 February 1888, the son of William Fletcher Gibb (1855/6–1923), medical doctor, and his wife, Mary Jane, née Walker (1860/61–1948). He was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond...
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C. P. Lucas
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Girouard, Désiré (1836–1911), jurist and politician in Canada, born at St Timothy, co. Beauharnois, Lower Canada, on 7 July 1836, was the son of Jérémie Girouard and his wife, Hippolite Piccard. He was descended on his father's side from Antoine Girouard, private secretary to ...
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P. M. Zall
Hopkinson, Francis (1737–1791), musician, jurist, and revolutionary politician in America, was born on 2 October 1737 in Philadelphia and baptized at Christ Church, son of Thomas Hopkinson (1709–1751), lawyer, and his wife, Mary Johnson (1718–1804), both recent émigrés from England. He was among the first generation of native-born Americans trained to cultivate the arts and sciences on their own soil. Most were gentlemen amateurs who dabbled in many arts and mastered none. ...
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Joseph S. Tiedemann
Jones, David (1699–1775), politician and jurist in America, was born on 16 September 1699 at Fort Neck, Oyster Bay, Queens county, New York. He was the second of eight children of Thomas Jones (c.1665–1713) and Freelove (1674–1726), daughter of Thomas Townsend...
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Leone Levi (1821–1888) by Elliott & Fry, 1873 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Levi, Leone (1821–1888), jurist, political economist, and statistician, was born on 6 June 1821 in Ancona, later part of the kingdom of Italy. He came from a middle-class Jewish family. His father, Isaac, and his elder brother were both merchants. Leone received a practical, commercial education and began working for his brother at the age of fifteen. He travelled to ...
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MacCormick, Sir (Donald) Neil (1941–2009), jurist and Scottish nationalist, was born at Redlands Hospital, Glasgow, on 27 May 1941, the younger son of John MacDonald MacCormick (1904–1961), solicitor and Scottish nationalist, and his wife, Margaret Isobel, née Miller (1908–2003), social worker. He was educated at ...
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