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Hereditary Genius
3.
Viz. Finch (Earl of Nottingham), Twisden,
and Legge
F. 2S. US. GN. PS. (?gN.)
2.
Herbert, Lord Keeper, and son
2S. 2US.
2.
Hyde, Earl Clarendon, and cousin
2U. 3US. S.
Law (Lord Ellenborough)
F. 2S. 2B.
(Legge, see Finch.) Lyttleton1
B. F. u. g. PS.
3.
Viz. 2 Montagu2 and 1 North (Ld.
Guilford) (North, see Montagu.)
G. B. 2S. 2N. 2P. NS. 5NS.
2.
Pratt, Earl Camden, and Sir J.
F. S. n. NS.
Somers, Earl (but see Yorke)
2NS. 2NP.
Trevor, Lord(Trevor, Master of the Rolls,
see Jeffreys.)
g. F. S. U. GB.
Vaughan
3B. 2N.p.
2.
Yorke, Earl Hardwicke and son; also, in
part, Earl Somers
2S. 2P. PS.
Several remarkable features in the contents of this table will catch the eye
at once. I will begin by shortly alluding to them, and will enter more into
details a little further on. First, it will be observed, that the Judges are so
largely interrelated, that 109 of them are grouped into only 85 families.
There are seventeen doublets, among the Judges, two triplets, and one
quadruplet. In addition to these, might be counted six other sets, consisting
of those whose ancestors sat on the Bench previously to the accession of
Charles II., namely, Bedingfield, Forster, Hyde, Finch, Windham, and
Lyttleton. Another fact to be observed, is the nearness of the relationships
in my list. The single letters are far the most common. Also, though a man
has twice as many grandfathers as fathers, and probably more than twice
as many grandsons as sons, yet the Judges are found more frequently to
have eminent fathers than grandfathers, and eminent sons than grandsons.
In the third degree of relationship, the eminent kinsmen are yet more rare,
although the number of individuals in those degrees is increased in a
duplicate proportion. When a judge has no more than one eminent relation,
that relation
1
The kinship is reckoned from the Lord Keeper.
2
Ditto, from Chief Justice the first Earl of Manchester; the two nephews are William, Ch. B.
E., and the Earl of Sandwich; the two grandsons, the Earl of Halifax and James, Ch.B. E. The
genealogical table in the Appendix to this chapter, will explain these and the other kinships of
the Montagu family.
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