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Eyre, Sir Samuel, Just. K.B. (Will. III.)
Sir Robert, Chief Just C.P. (Geo. II.)
Finch, Heneage, L.Ch.; cr. E. of Nottingham.
Heneage, Solic. Gen.; cr. Earl Aylesford.
Finch, Sir Heneage, Recorder of London.
Heneage, Ld. Chan.; cr. E. of Nottingham.
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Forster, Sir James, Just. C.P. (Chas. I.)
Sir Robert, Chief Just K.B. (Chas. II.)
Gurney, Sir John, B.E. (Vict.)
Rt. Hon. Russell Gurney, Recorder of London.
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Herbert, Sir Edw., Lord Keeper. (Chas. II.)
Sir Edward, Chief Just K.B. (Jas. II.)
Hewitt, James; cr. Ld. Lifford.; Just K.B.
Joseph, Just K.B. Ireland.
Jervis, ——, Chief Just of Chester.
Sir John, Chief Just. C.P. (Vict.)
Law, Edw.; cr. Ld. Ellenborough; Ch. K.B.
Chas. Ewan, M. P., Recorder of London.
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Pratt, Sir John, Chief Just. K.B. (Geo II.)
Earl Camden, Lord Chanc. (Geo. III.)
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Raymond, Sir Thomas, Just C.B.
Robert; cr. Ld. Raymond; Ch. K.B. (Geo.II.)
Romilly, Sir Samuel, Solic. Gen.
Cr. Lord Romilly, Master of Rolls. (Vict.)
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Willes, Sir John, Chief Just C.P. (Geo. III.)
Sir Edward, Just K.B. (Geo. III.)
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Yorke, Philip, Ld. Chanc.; cr. E. Hardwicke.
Hon. Charles, Lord Chanc. (Geo. III.)
BROTHERS
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Atkyns, Sir Robert, Chief C.P. (Will. III.)
Sir Edward, B.E. (Jas. II.)
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Cowper, Wm.; cr. Earl Cowper; Ld. Chanc.
Sir Spencer, Just C. P. (Geo. II.)
Erskine, T.; cr. Lord Erskine; Lord Chanc.
Henry, twice Lord Advocate, Scotland.
Hyde, Sir Robert, Chief K.B. (Chas. II.)
Sir Frederick, a Judge in S. Wales. Judge of Admiralty.
Lee, Sir William, Chief K.B. (Geo. II.)
George, Dean of Arches, &c.
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Lyttleton, Lord, Lord Keeper. (Chas. I.)
Sir Timothy, B.E. (Chas. II.)
North, F.; cr. Earl of Guilford; Lord Chanc.
Roger, Attorney Gen. to Queen.
Pollock, Sir F. Chief B.E. (Vict.)
Sir David, Chief Just Bombay.
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Powis, Sir Lyttleton, Just. K.B. (Geo. L)
Sir Thomas, Just K.B. (Geo. I.)
Scarlett, Sir J.; cr. Ld. Abinger; Ch. B.E.
Sir Wm. Ch. Just Jamaica.
Scott, John; cr. Earl of Eldon; Lord Chanc.
William; cr. Lord Stowell; Judge Adm.
Wilde, T.; cr. Lord Truro; Lord Chanc.
Sir ——, Ch. Just. Cape of Good Hope.
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Wynham, Sir Hugh, B.E. (Chas. II.)
Sir Wadham, B.E. (Chas. II.)
GRANDFATHERS
GRANDFATHERS
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Atkyns, Sir Robt Chief C.P. (Will. III.)
Sir J. Tracy (assumed name of Atkyns),
Cursitor B.E. (Geo. III.)
Burnet, ——, Scotch Judge; Lord Cramond.
Sir Thomas Burnet, Just CP.
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Gould, Sir Henry, Just Q.B. (Anne.)
Sir Henry Gould, Just C.P. (Geo. III.)
Jeffreys, ——, Judge in N. Wales.
Jeffreys, Lord, Lord Chanc. (Jas. II.)
Finch, H. Solic.-Gen.: cr. E. Aylesford.
Hon. H. Legge, B.E. (Geo. II.)
Walter, Sir E. Chief Just S. Wales.
Lyttleton, Sir T.B.E. (Chas. II.)
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Heath, Sir R. Chief K.B. (Chas. I.)
Verney, Hon. Sir J. Master of Rolls.
Out of the 286 Judges, more than one in every nine of them have been
either father, son, or brother to another judge, and the other high legal
relationships have been even more numerous. There cannot, then, remain a
doubt but that the peculiar type of ability that is necessary to a judge is
often transmitted by descent.
The reader must guard himself against the supposition, that because the
Judges have so many legal relations, therefore they have few other
relations of eminence in other walks of life. A long list might be made out of
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