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Addison, Charles Greenstreet (bap. 1812, d. 1866), barrister and legal writer  

Michael Lobban

Addison, Charles Greenstreet (bap. 1812, d. 1866), barrister and legal writer, was baptized on 1 April 1812, the youngest son of William Dering Addison of Newark House, Maidstone, the descendant of an old Kentish family, and his wife, Susan Whiting. Addison was called to the bar at the ...

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Annesley, Alexander (d. 1813), legal writer and political commentator  

Sidney Lee

revised by Robert Brown

Annesley, Alexander (d. 1813), legal writer and political commentator, was a London solicitor and member of the Inner Temple. After many years' practice, by which he acquired a large fortune, he retired to Hyde Hall, Hertfordshire. Annesley—a man of many accomplishments—paid repeated visits to the continent and was an enthusiastic sportsman. In later life, though afflicted with gout, it was said that he '...

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Anstruther, Sir Alexander (1769–1819), judge and legal writer  

Katherine Prior

Anstruther, Sir Alexander (1769–1819), judge and legal writer, was born on 10 September 1769, the second son of Sir Robert Anstruther, third baronet (1733–1818), of Balcaskie, Fife, and his wife, Lady Janet Erskine (d. 1770), youngest daughter of the fifth earl of Kellie...

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Archbold, John Frederick (1785–1870), barrister and legal writer  

E. I. Carlyle

revised by Michael Lobban

Archbold, John Frederick (1785–1870), barrister and legal writer, was born in Ireland, the second son of John Archbold of Boldbrook and Turvey, co. Dublin, who was possibly the John Archbold who owned the Boldbrook paper mill, Tallaght, co. Dublin. Archbold was admitted a student of ...

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Bacon, Mathew (b. c. 1700, d. in or before 1757), legal writer  

N. G. Jones

Bacon, Mathew (b. c. 1700, d. in or before 1757), legal writer, was the second son of Edward Bacon of Rathkeny, co. Tipperary, Ireland. He was admitted to the Inner Temple on 27 May 1726, and to the Middle Temple on 21 June 1731. He was called to the bar on 24 November 1732. In 1731 he published anonymously the ...

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Balfour, Sir James, of Pittendreich (c. 1525–1583), politician and legal writer  

Peter G. B. McNeill

Balfour, Sir James, of Pittendreich (c. 1525–1583), politician and legal writer, was the eldest son of Sir Michael Balfour (d. 1577) of Mountquhanie in Fife, and Joneta Boswell. He may have been educated at St Andrews in 1539 or 1540, when he would have been about fifteen years old, and was at ...

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Ballow [Bellewe], Henry (1704?–1782), legal writer  

N. G. Jones

Ballow [Bellewe], Henry (1704?–1782), legal writer, was probably born on 3 May 1704 in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, the son of Henry Ballow and his wife, Dorothy. He was admitted a pensioner at Magdalene College, Cambridge, on 15 October 1720, and admitted to ...

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Barton, Charles (1767/8–1843), barrister and legal writer  

Michael Lobban

Barton, Charles (1767/8–1843), barrister and legal writer, was called to the bar on 20 November 1795 at the Inner Temple, and established a successful conveyancing practice. Among his clients was the Golden Lane Brewery, one of a number of joint-stock associations formed after the turn of the nineteenth century and whose deed he drew up. ...

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Bayley, Sir John, first baronet (1763–1841)  

Maker: William Russell

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Sir John Bayley, first baronet (1763–1841) by William Russell, c. 1808 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Bayley, Sir John, first baronet (1763–1841), judge and legal writer  

Michael Lobban

Bayley, Sir John, first baronet (1763–1841), judge and legal writer, was born on 3 August 1763, at Elton, Huntingdonshire, the second son of John Bayley (d. 1790) of Abbots Ripton, whose ancestors had emigrated from Spanish Flanders in the seventeenth century, and his wife, ...

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Bell, George Joseph (1770–1843)  

Maker: Sir Henry Raeburn

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George Joseph Bell (1770–1843) by Sir Henry Raeburn, 1816 in the collection of the Faculty of Advocates; photograph courtesy the Scottish National Portrait Gallery

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Bell, George Joseph (1770–1843), jurist and legal writer  

W. M. Gordon

Bell, George Joseph (1770–1843), jurist and legal writer, was born on 26 March 1770 at Fountainbridge near Edinburgh, the third of the four sons of Revd William Bell (1704–1779), a Scottish Episcopal clergyman, and his wife, Margaret Morrice. His eldest brother, Robert Bell...

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Bellenden, Sir John, of Auchnoul [of Auchinoul] (d. 1576), judge and legal writer  

John Finlay

Bellenden, Sir John, of Auchnoul [of Auchinoul] (d. 1576), judge and legal writer, was the eldest son of Thomas Bellenden of Auchinoul (d. 1546), director of the king's chancery and justice clerk; his mother's name is unknown. He had two brothers, Patrick Bellenden...

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Bellewe [Bellew], Richard (fl. 1575–1585), compiler of legal cases  

Charles R. Forker

Bellewe [Bellew], Richard (fl. 1575–1585), compiler of legal cases, supposedly of Irish origin, was entered at Lincoln's Inn in London on 5 June 1575, and its arms appear in one of his books. Nothing more apart from his printed works is now known. In 1578 he published in Norman French ...

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Berlins, Marcel Joseph (1941–2019), journalist, broadcaster, and legal commentator  

Michael Leapman

Berlins, Marcel Joseph (1941–2019), journalist, broadcaster, and legal commentator, was born on 30 October 1941 at 11 rue Mazenot, Marseilles, France, then under the control of the Vichy regime headed by Marshal Pétain; he was the only child of Jacob (Jacques) Berlins (...

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Best, William Mawdesley (1809?–1869), legal writer  

C. J. W. Allen

Best, William Mawdesley (1809?–1869), legal writer, was probably born in December 1809 at Haddington, East Lothian, the elder of the two sons of Thomas Best (1784–1813), captain in the Cameronian regiment, and his wife, Anne Kearney, of Tuam, Ireland. After his father's death he was educated in ...

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Bever, Thomas (bap. 1725, d. 1791), lawyer and legal writer  

J. L. Barton

Bever, Thomas (bap. 1725, d. 1791), lawyer and legal writer, was baptized at Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire, on 22 September 1725, one of at least two sons of Thomas Bever, whose family had owned land in the parish since the fifteenth century, and of ...

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Bingham, Peregrine (1788–1864), legal writer and reformer  

Stephen Conway

Bingham, Peregrine (1788–1864), legal writer and reformer, was born on 15 April 1788 at Radclive, Buckinghamshire, where he was baptized on 19 April 1788, the eldest son of the Revd Peregrine Bingham (1754–1826) and his wife, Amy, née Bowles (1769–1859). He was educated at ...

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Blackstone, Sir William (1723–1780), legal writer and judge  

Wilfrid Prest

Blackstone, Sir William (1723–1780), legal writer and judge, was born on 10 July 1723 in Cheapside, London, the third surviving but posthumous son of Charles Blackstone (d. 1723), a citizen silk mercer 'not of great Affluence' (Blackstone, Reports, iii...

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Blackstone, Sir William (1723–1780)  

Maker: John Bacon senior

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Sir William Blackstone (1723–1780) by John Bacon senior, 1784 All Souls College, Oxford