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Augustus Stephenson
Sir Augustus Frederick William Keppel Stephenson, (18 October 1827 in London – 26 September 1904) was a Treasury Solicitor and the second person to hold the office of Director of Public Prosecutions in England and Wales. Early life and family Stephenson was born in London on 18 October 1827, the eldest child of Henry Frederick Stephenson, M.P., and Lady Mary Keppel. His mother was one of eleven children born to William Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle. His father, Henry Frederick Stephenson, was the illegitimate son of Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk. Henry Frederick Stephenson was a barrister-at-law and served as M.P. for Westbury (1831–49). His younger brother, Admiral Sir Henry Frederick Stephenson, was a Royal Navy officer, courtier and Arctic explorer. Education Stephenson was educated privately, and later attended Caius College, Cambridge, taking his M.A. in 1819. He was called to the Bar as barrister-at-law of Lincoln's Inn in 1852. Career For two years (1852– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treasury Solicitor
The Government Legal Department (previously called the Treasury Solicitor's Department) is the largest in-house legal organisation in the United Kingdom's Government Legal Service. The department is headed by the Treasury Solicitor. This office goes back several centuries. The office was enshrined in law by the Treasury Solicitor Act 1876, which established the Treasury Solicitor as a corporation sole (an office with perpetual succession). Employees of the department exercise legal powers which are vested in the corporation sole. The department is a non-ministerial government department and executive agency. The Treasury Solicitor reports to the Attorney General for England and Wales. The department employs more than 1,900 solicitors and barristers to provide advice and legal representation on a huge range of issues to many government departments. History The department was historically known as the Treasury Solicitor's Department, but changed name to the Government Legal Departme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl Of Halsbury
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Directors Of Public Prosecutions (England And Wales)
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British Barristers
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1904 Deaths
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John Maule (barrister)
Sir John Blossett Maule, QC (1818–1889) was a British barrister who served as the first Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales. Life The second son of the Solicitor to the Treasury George Maule, Esquire, of London, Maule was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He entered the Inner Temple on 13 January 1844, aged twenty-six, was called to the bar on 29 January 1847, and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1866. Joseph Foster, ''Men-at-the-bar: a Biographical Hand-list of the Members of the Various Inns of Court, Including Her Majesty's Judges, Etc.'' (London: Reeves and Turner, 1885), p. 72Frederic Boase, '' Modern English Biography: I–Q'' (1897), p. 801. Maule served as Recorder of Leeds from 1861 to 1880, when he was appointed as Director of Public Prosecutions. He was Treasurer of his Inn for 1881-1882, was a member of the Council of Legal Education,''The Law Times'', vol. 87 (1889), p. 425 was knighted A knight is a person granted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HM Procurator General
The Government Legal Department (previously called the Treasury Solicitor's Department) is the largest in-house legal organisation in the United Kingdom's Government Legal Service. The department is headed by the Treasury Solicitor. This office goes back several centuries. The office was enshrined in law by the Treasury Solicitor Act 1876, which established the Treasury Solicitor as a corporation sole (an office with perpetual succession). Employees of the department exercise legal powers which are vested in the corporation sole. The department is a non-ministerial government department and executive agency. The Treasury Solicitor reports to the Attorney General for England and Wales. The department employs more than 1,900 solicitors and barristers to provide advice and legal representation on a huge range of issues to many government departments. History The department was historically known as the Treasury Solicitor's Department, but changed name to the Government Legal Departme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Hart Dyke
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Hamilton Cuffe, 5th Earl Of Desart
Hamilton John Agmondesham Cuffe, 5th Earl of Desart, (30 August 1848 – 4 November 1934) was an Irish peer and barrister. Early life Cuffe was the second son of John Cuffe, 3rd Earl of Desart and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Campbell. He had an older sister, Lady Alice Mary Cuffe, and brother, William Cuffe, and a younger brother, Captain Otway Cuffe. His older sister married John Henniker-Major, 5th Baron Henniker and was the mother of twelve children. His paternal grandparents were John Cuffe, 2nd Earl of Desart, and Catherine, daughter of Maurice O'Connor. His mother was the third daughter of John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor (a son of John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor) and Lady Elizabeth Thynne, daughter of Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath. Career In his early life, he was a midshipman in the Royal Navy, before becoming a barrister in 1872. In 1877, he was appointed as a secretary to the Judicature Committee and as a solicitor to The Treasury a year later. In 1894, he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gray (Queen's Proctor)
John Gray, QC (1807 – 22 January 1875) was a British lawyer and legal writer. The younger son of George Gray, he was born in Aberdeen where he was educated at Gordon's Hospital, before joining a firm of solicitors, Messrs White and Whitmore. He was called to the bar in 1838, four years after being admitted to the Middle Temple. He took silk in 1863 and was appointed Solicitor to the Treasury in 1871, serving until he died in 1875. He conducted the prosecution of the claimant in the infamous Tichborne case The Tichborne case was a legal ''cause célèbre'' that captivated Victorian England in the 1860s and 1870s. It concerned the claims by a man sometimes referred to as Thomas Castro or as Arthur Orton, but usually termed "the Claimant", to be t ....John Hutchinson (ed.), ''A Catalogue of Notable Middle Templars with Brief Biographical Notices'' (Middle Temple, 1902), p. 105. Publications * ''The Country Attorney's Practice'' (1836)6th ed.(1845). * ''The Country Solicit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry James Fitzroy, Earl Of Euston
Henry James FitzRoy, Earl of Euston (28 November 1848 – 10 May 1912) was the eldest son and heir apparent of Augustus FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton. His mother was the daughter of MP James Balfour. Personal life Euston married a music hall artiste "Kate Cooke", real name Kate Walsh, daughter of John Walsh, on 29 May 1871 at St. Michael's Church, Worcester. Described as "one of the most notorious women in London" she was at least ten years his senior.''Letter of Marquise De Fontenoy'', Chicago Tribune, 9 August 1904, http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1903/05/18/page/12/article/letter-of-marquise-de-fontenoy/index.html They had no children, and separated after three years, Euston securing a government position in Australia. Having discovered that Walsh had contracted a bigamous marriage, he returned to London to seek an annulment. At great expense Walsh's presumed husband was located in New Zealand and brought to London. In a case that was termed "stranger than fiction", at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Arthur Somerset (1851–1926)
Major Lord Henry Arthur George Somerset DL (17 November 1851 – 26 May 1926) was the third son of the 8th Duke of Beaufort and his wife, the former Lady Georgiana Curzon. He was head of the stables of the future King Edward VII (then Prince of Wales) and a Major in the Royal Horse Guards. Lord Arthur Somerset was linked with the Cleveland Street scandal, in which he was identified and named by several male prostitutes as a customer of their services. He was interviewed by the police on 7 August 1889, and although the record of the interview has not survived, it resulted in a report being made by the Attorney-General, Solicitor-General and Director of Prosecutions urging that proceedings should be taken against him under section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885. A piece of paper was pasted over Somerset's name in the report, as it was deemed so sensitive. It is believed that he gave the police the initials of a member of the Royal family "P. A. V.", which stoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
