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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Sidney Lee
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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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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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E. I. Carlyle
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Archbold, John Frederick (1785–1870), barrister and legal writer, was the second son of John Archbold of co. Dublin. He was admitted a student of Lincoln's Inn on 3 May 1809, and was called to the bar on 5 May 1814. Archbold did not marry, and with no recorded interests outside the law he devoted his life to his work, becoming one of the most prolific writers of legal treatises and digests in the nineteenth century. His books were essentially practical, and were clear, comprehensive, and well organized. He also had a high reputation, which ensured that his works usually sold well....
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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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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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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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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, 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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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, 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, 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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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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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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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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Sir William Blackstone (1723–1780) by John Bacon senior, 1784 All Souls College, Oxford
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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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Blanchard, William Isaac (bap. 1741
