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Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (1815-1895) Home Secretary 1869-1873
Henry Tanworth (after) Wells (1828 - 1903)
Sir James Stansfeld (1820-1898) politician and social reformer
Samuel Sidley (1829 - 1896)
Justice
William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)
Thomas Cook (1744 - 1818)
Henry Pelham (1694-1754) and his secretary John Roberts
John Shackleton ( - 1767)
I sensed that Brenda was trying to impress me….
Glen Baxter (1944 - )
Frontispiece to “Memoirs of an Infantry Officer” by Siegfried Sassoon
Barnett Freedman (1901 - 1958)
Infantry Brigade Signal Office, Flanders HQ
Francis Patrick Martin (1883 - 1966)
Richard Everard Webster, Viscount Alverstone (1842-1915) judge; Lord Chief Justice of England
Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope (1857 - 1940)
George Graham (1801-1888) Registrar General (1842-1879)
Frank Holl (1845 - 1888)
Hudibras and the Lawyer
William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)
Thomas Cook (1744 - 1818)
Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, 12th Baronet (1802-1880) Chief Justice of the King’s Bench
Thomas Lewis Atkinson (1817 - 1889/90)
Sir George Thomas Staunton (1781-1859) politician, writer and Sinologist
Sir Martin Archer Shee (1769 - 1850)
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (1863-1945) Prime Minister
Sir William Orpen (1878 - 1931)
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841-1917) British Agent & Consul-General in Egypt
John Singer, (After) Sargent
Samuel Melton Fisher (1860 - 1939)
Mukund Ramrao Jayakar (1873-1959) judge and Vice-Chancellor of Poona University
S N Gorakshakar (1891 - 1961)
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1819-1861) Prince Consort of Queen Victoria
Frederick Richard Say (c.1805 - 1868)
Call It a Day
Rupert Allen Shaw (1950 - 1995)
Sir Henry Pottinger, 1st Baronet (1789-1856) army officer; Governor of Hong Kong
Sir Francis Grant (1803 - 1878)
“Slow and Steady” Justice Gainford Bruce (1834-1912)
Sir Leslie Matthew ("Spy") Ward (1851 - 1922)
Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn (1733-1805) Lord Chancellor
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)
Joseph Grozer (1755 - 1799)
Primrose No. 2
Ivon Hitchens (1893 - 1979)
Law Society Library, Chancery Lane
John Ward (1917 - 2007)
Desk Top Confusion
Chris Plowman (1952 - 2009)
1796 and All That
Chris Orr (1943 - )
Stormy Desk
Anthony Rossiter (1926 - 2000)
Divisional Court of the Queens Bench Division
Arthur Temple Felix Clay (1842 - 1928)
John Harvey (1681-1735) Architect
John Vanderbank (1694 - 1739)
Harry Rogers, Honarary Secretary to the United Law Clerks’ Society
Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope (1857 - 1940)
Law Society Library, Chancery Lane
John Ward (1917 - 2007)
James Wolfe (1727-1759) General, when a Boy
Benjamin West (1738 - 1820)
Board Room of the Admiralty
William B E Ranken (1881 - 1941)
James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope (1673-1721) Army Officer, Diplomat, & Politician
Johan van Diest
Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779-1845) diplomat
Sir George Hayter (1792 - 1871)
Spencer Perceval (1762-1812) Prime Minister
George Francis Joseph (1764 - 1846)
Samuel Vaughan (1720-1802) trader, garden designer and philosopher
Robert Edge Pine (1742 - 1788)
William Pitt (1759-1806) Prime Minister
Henry Edridge (1769 - 1821)
Antoine Cardon (1772 - 1813)
William Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock (1911-1988) politician; Secretary of State for Scotland 1964-70, 1974-76
Kathryn Kynoch
Military College, Chelsea
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
Thomas Sutherland (1785 - 1838)
Hudibras and the Lawyer
William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)
1796 and All That
Chris Orr (1943 - )
The Radcliffe Library
Frederick Mackenzie (1787 - 1854)
John Bluck
William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) Prime Minister
Percy Bigland (1856 - 1926)
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