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 Attorney General, and the Master of the Rolls (the second most senior judge in the country), 1818 until his death.
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Sir Thomas Plumer
G.B.E., K.C., Master of the Bench, 1905 - 1951, Treasurer of Inner Temple 1926. 1st and last Baron Maenan.
Doctor of Civil Law, judge, MP, supporter of the campaigns for the abolition of slavery and of capital punishment. Born Berkshire. Died Surrey.
Connected with the Chelsea Temperance Society for 21 years, he was actively engaged in the national temperance organizations and in the development of the “Royal Army Temperance Association” of whi...
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...
Barrister and politician. Born at Fern Bank, Greenhill Park, Harlesden. Called to the bar in November 1909, he successfully defended Ho Chi Minh in 1931–32 against a French request for his extradit...
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