The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-31 00:00:00

EMINENT LAWYERS

The following is a list of some of the eminent lawyers
of the last and present age :
Lords Eldon and Stowell—sons of a barge-maker and
small coal-dealer, at Newcastle- under-Lyne. Lord
Stowell borrowed £4O to go the circuit, and both sup-
ported themselves for a time by their talents as private
tutors.

Lord Tenterden—son of a barber at Canterbury : he
received an eleemosynary education, but obtained the
means to go to college: while there, he enjoyed from a
company in the city of London an exhibition of £3 per
annum, until he took his degree. Some years since, in
dining with the company, he alluded to the circumstance,
and expressed his gratitude.
Lord Gifford—prior to his being called to the bar, was
articled to a solicitor near Exeter. His rise was owing
chiefly to the interest of the Msrchioness of Conyngbam,
to whom he was distantly related.
Lord Langdale, the Master of the Rolls—not very long
since an accoucheur, and married a daughter of :Lord
Orford, whose family he had attended.
Sir John Williams, one of the Judges of the Queen's
Bench—son of a horse-dealer in Yorkshire.

Solicitor-General Wylde—an attorney in the city, in
co-partnership with Mr. Knight : his brother is now an
attorney on College-hill, Bread-street.
Mr. Serjeant Talfourd—son of a brewer at Reading,
received the rudiments of his education at the Protestant
Dissenters' Grammar-school, at Mill-hill, near Hendon,
and at that time wrote for the public press. He com-
pleted his studies with Dr. Valpy, of Reading.
Sir Frederick Pollock, and his brother, Mr. David
Pollock—the sons of a saddler, now Messrs. Cuff's esta-
blishment, near Charing-cross.
Mr. Baron Gurney—his mother kept a small book-
shop for pamphlets in a court in the city ; his brother is
short-hand writer to the House of Lords of Commons.
The Baron was originally of the denomination called Bap-
fists. and for many years attended a Baptist chapel in
Maize-pond, in the Borough.
Lord Campbell, the late Attorney-General, and son-in-
law of Lord Abinger—reporter to a daily paper, at a time
when such labour wes worse paid than at present.
Mr. Serjeant Spankie was one of his colleagues.
James Stephens, Esq., the Master in Chancery, was a
reporter.

Almost all the Judges sent out to the colonies were
reporters.

Mr. Wallace, M.P., was formerly a weaver.
Sir Edward B. Sugden—son of a barber, and formerly
a clerk to Mr. Groom, the conveyancer.
Lord Lyndhurst—son of a painter, who died deeply in
debt.

Mr. Whitehurst, leading counsel of the Midland Cir-
cuit—son of a watchmaker at Derby.
Mr. Petersdoff's father kept a furrier's shop.
Mr. Clarkson, of the Old Bailey—his father was au at-
torney in the Insolvent Debtors' Court, on its first for-
mation.

Mr. Charlton, Queen's Counsel—his father is an attor-
ney, and now in practice in Chancery-lane.
Chief Justice Saunders, whose precepts to this day
form the best text-book to pleaders, was a beggar-boy,
first taken notice of by an attorney, who employed him
in his office.

Lord Keuyon—an attorney's clerk.
Lord Hardwicke—a peasant, and afterwards an attor-
ney's writer and office-boy.

If the Society of Friends have lost a member by Mr.
Lucas turning Catholic, they certainly have gained one in
the person of Dan O'Connell, who has been a Quaker
ever since the late government proclama,ion.—Argus.