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
Chief Justice of England during the reign of Henry IV. Born Yorkshire.
Son of Robert Giles Marten. Admitted to Inner Temple in 1852 and became a QC, County Court Judge and knighted in 1896. MP for Cambridge. Was Treasurer of the Temple in 1893. Died St Leonard's on Sea.
Football administrator. Born in eastern France. Initially a lawyer, in 1897 he started a sports club called Red Star which did not discriminate against individuals on the basis of class. He was inv...
Solicitor. Born Norfolk. 1891 finds him living in Buckhurst Hill. 1901, Churchwarden of St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe. Clement Ferrier Burton was born on 22 April 1852 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, the ...
G.B.E., K.C., Master of the Bench, 1905 - 1951, Treasurer of Inner Temple 1926. 1st and last Baron Maenan.
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