The New House of Commons, with Biographical Notices of Its Members [etc.]

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1885
 

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Page 350 - ... charm about him which fascinated natures as unlike each other as Shelley and Scott. By the death of the fifth Lord Byron without issue, Byron came into a title and estates at the age of ten. Though a liberal in politics he had aristocratic feelings, and was vain of his rank as he was of his beauty. He was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was idle and dissipated, but did a great deal of miscellaneous reading. He took . some of his Cambridge set — Hobhouse, Matthews,...
Page 193 - He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1864.
Page 165 - Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and a member of the Society of Arts, and has practised his professio'n as an architect and surveyor for thirteen years.
Page 135 - Chambers, born at Hertford, in 1814, was educated at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1840. He represented the borough of Hertford in the House of Commons from July, 1852, to July, 1857. In the latter year he was elected Common Serjeant of London, and in 1801 he was appointed one of Her Majesty's Counsel.
Page 374 - He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and was called to the Irish bar. In 1832, however, he emigrated to Canada, and settled in the township of Oro in Upper Canada.
Page 165 - ... at Nairn. Until two years previously he was senior master at Harrow and had been connected with the school for forty-six years, having entered as a boy in 1867. He afterwards became a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge. — Baron de Rutzen died at the age of 86 years. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1864. He was elder brother to the 148 [April late Sir Albert de Rutzen, Chief Metropolitan Police Magistrate.
Page 11 - Temple in 1824, and, after obtaining considerable practice, became solicitor and attorney-general to the Prince of Wales, and vice warden of the stannaries of Devon and Cornwall. He was also a magistrate for Cornwall. Sir Edward was knighted in 1870.
Page 236 - ... be invested with that honour, and many of his friends at the time feared that he would not live long to enjoy it, as he had long been in failing health. The eldest son of the late Mr. Daniel Cave, of Cleve Hill, near Bristol, and of Sidbury Manor, near Devonshire, he was born in the year 1820, and was educated at Harrow, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took his Bachelor's degree in 1843, obtaining a second-class in the School of Literal Rumanioreg.
Page 15 - Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons 1874-80, and President of the Central Council of Diocesan Conferences 1881-86.
Page 216 - Park, Oxfordshire. He was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1861. Mr Leighton is a magistrate for the counties of Salop and Montgomery. He represented North Shropshire from February, 1876, to the close of the last Parliament.

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