William Charles Niblett
Born India. Called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1882. Travelled extensively, settled in Singapore where he made his fortune in property. Returned to England in 1905. In 1915 he gave his Singap...
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Caroline Norton
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lady Stirling-Maxwell, was an active English social reformer and author. She left her husband in 1836. He sued her close friend Lord Melbourne, then the Prime Minis...
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Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn
The construction was partly funded by a sharp increase in the fine for "fornicating with a woman in chambers".
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Old Watch House - E17
Before an effective police force was established each local council or vestry organised their own watchmen. The watch house was where they would hold prisoners before they appeared in court. Like t...
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Parish Lock-up - Hampstead
Parish Lock-up About 1730, this lock-up was built into the garden wall of Cannon Hall, where local magistrates held court. Prisoners were kept in this dark single cell until more lasting arrangeme...
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John James Park
Author of the first History of Hampstead which he published aged 16. Celebrated career in law. Son of Thomas Park.
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Joseph Payne
Lived in a cottage in Highgate West Hill, a deputy assistant judge, a zealous total abstainer, supporter of Bands of Hope. Temperance Standard Bearers of the Nineteenth Century: A Biographical ......
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Councillor Leonard Pearl
Leonard Pearl was born on 6 August 1908 in Mile End, London, one of at least nine children of David Pearl (1886-1919) and Rachel Pearl née Solomon (1868-1934). In the 1911 census he is shown as liv...
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John Roland Phillips
Barrister at law. Involved in the reviving of the Society of Cymmrodorion in 1873. Advertised in The Welshman in 1875. Appointed first stipendiary magistrate at the West Ham court house in 1881. I...
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Sir Thomas Plumer
Judge and politician. Called to the bar in 1778, he acted for the defence in a number of important cases. In Parliament, he sat in the pocket borough of Downton in Wiltshire, and was promoted to At...
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