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Hereditary Genius
already said about reputation being a test of ability, and by giving a short list
of the more remarkable cases of relations to the Lord Chancellors, which I
think will adequately meet their objection. They are—
l. Earl Bathurst and his daughter's son, the famous judge, Sir F. Buller. 2.
Earl Camden and his father, Chief Justice Pratt. 3. Earl Clarendon and the
remarkable family of Hyde, in which were two uncles and one cousin, all
English judges, besides one Welsh judge, and many other men of distinction.
4. Earl Cowper, his brother the judge, and his great-nephew the poet. 5.
Earl Eldon and his brother Lord Stowell. 6. Lord Erskine, his eminent legal
brother the Lord Advocate of Scotland, and his son the judge. 7. Earl
Nottingham and the most remarkable family of Finch. 8, 9, 10. Earl
Hardwicke and his son, also a Lord Chancellor, who died suddenly, and that
son's great-uncle, Lord Somers, also a Lord Chancellor. 11. Lord Herbert,
his son a judge, his cousins Lord Herbert of Cherbury and George the poet
and divine. 12. Lord King and his uncle, John Locke the philosopher. 13.
The infamous but most able Lord Jeffreys had a cousin just like him,
namely, Sir J. Trevor, Master of the Rolls. 14. Lord Guilford is member of a
family to which I simply despair of doing justice, for it is linked with
connexions of such marvellous ability, judicial and statesmanlike, as to
deserve a small volume to describe it. It contains thirty first-class men in
near kinship, including Montagus, Sydneys, Herberts, Dudleys, and others.
15. Lord Truro had two able legal brothers, one of whom was Chief Justice
at the Cape of Good Hope; and his nephew is an English judge, recently
created Lord Penzance. I will here mention Lord Lyttleton, Lord Keeper of
Charles I., although many members of his most remarkable family do not
fall within my limits. His father, the Chief Justice of North Wales, married a
lady, the daughter of Sir J. Walter, the Chief
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