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Alexander Adam LLD (1741–1809) was a Scottish teacher and writer
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Arthur Murphy (1727-1805) barrister, journalist, actor, biographer, translator and playwright of Irish origin, raised and lived in London
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Arthur Wolfe, 1st Viscount Kilwarden (1739-1803) Anglo-Irish peer, politician and judge, who held office as Lord Chief Justice of Ireland
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Charles Abbott, Baron Tenterden (1762-1832) British barrister, judge and Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench
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Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning (1812-1862) English statesman, son of George Canning, Prime Minister and Governor-General of India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857
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Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714-1794) English lawyer and judge who was a leading proponent of civil liberties, championing the rights of the jury
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Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714-1794) English lawyer and judge who was a leading proponent of civil liberties, championing the rights of the jury
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Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714-1794) English lawyer and judge who was a leading proponent of civil liberties, championing the rights of the jury
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Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot (1685-1737) British lawyer, politician and Lord Chancellor
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Claude Fleury (1640-1723) French priest, jurist, and ecclesiastical historian
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Dr Isaac Dorislaus (1595-1649) Historian and Lawyer, assassinated by a group of Royalists in Holland
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Edward Bruce, 1st Lord Kinloss (1548-1611) Scottish lawyer and judge
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Edward Hyde 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674) English statesman and Lord Chancellor to King Charles II
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Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough (1750-1818) English judge and Attorney General who became Lord Chief Justice
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Edward Littleton, 1st Baron Lyttleton (1589-1645) from Munslow in Shropshire, Chief Justice of North Wales who argued against John Hampden in the case over Ship Money
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Edward North, 1st Baron North (c1496-1564) English lawyer, politician and Clerk of the Parliaments
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Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow (1731-1806) British lawyer and Tory politician who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain for fourteen years and under four Prime Ministers
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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561-1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author
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Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey (1773-1850) Scottish judge and literary critic
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Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey (1773-1850) Scottish judge and literary critic
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Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford (1637-1685) eminent lawyer who became Lord Keeper of the Great Seal
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George Jeffreys, Lord Chief Justice of the England (1645-1689)
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Guido Panciroli or Pancirolli (1523-1599) a sixteenth-century Italian antiquarian, historian, jurist and law professor at Ferrara, Padua and Turin
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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868) British statesman and Lord Chancellor
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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868) British statesman and Lord Chancellor
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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868) British statesman and Lord Chancellor
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Henry Erskine (1746-1817) eminent Scottish lawyer
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Henry Hallam (1777-1859) English historian and author who practised as a barrister on the Oxford circuit for some years before turning to history
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Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–1782) Scottish judge and philosopher
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Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–1782) Scottish judge and philosopher
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Henry Mackenzie (1745- 1831) Scottish lawyer and novelist
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Henry Mackenzie (1745- 1831) Scottish lawyer and novelist
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Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester (1563-1642) English judge, politician and peer who was named by King Henry VIII one of the executors of his will, and governor to his son, Edward VI
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Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) Dutch Jurist
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Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) Dutch Jurist
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James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740–1795) Scottish lawyer and diarist
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James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair (1619–1695) Scottish lawyer and statesman
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Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer
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Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer
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John Bradshaw, Judge (1602-1659) regicide
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John Bradshaw, Judge (1602-1659) regicide
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John Cook, Solicitor General (1608-1660) regicide
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John Fortescue Aland, 1st Baron Fortescue of Credan (1670-1746) English judge, politician and influential writer on English legal history
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John Gaspar Gevartius or Jan Caspar Gevaerts (1593-1666) jurist learned in international and public law
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John Philpot Curran (1750-1817) Irish orator, politician, wit, lawyer and judge
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John Philpot Curran (1750-1817) Irish orator, politician, wit, lawyer and judge (aged 60)
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John Pym (1584-1643) English parliamentarian and leader of the Long Parliament
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John Rushworth (1612-1690) English lawyer, politician and historian and compiler of a series of works covering the English Civil Wars throughout the 17th century called Historical Collections
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John Selden (1584-1654) English jurist and a scholar of England’s ancient laws and constitution
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John Selden (1584-1654) English jurist and a scholar of England’s ancient laws and constitution
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John Selden (1584-1654) English jurist and a scholar of England’s ancient laws and constitution
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John Singleton Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst (1772-1863) British lawyer and politician who served three times as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
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John Singleton Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst (1772-1863) British lawyer and politician who served three times as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
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John Somers, 1st Baron Somers (1651-1716) English Whig jurist and statesman who was Lord High Chancellor under King William III
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John Wilkes FRS (1725-1797) English radical journalist and politician, as well as a magistrate, essayist and soldier
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John Wilson of Elleray (1785-1854) Scottish advocate, literary critic, author, editor and major contributor to Blackwood’s Magazine. He was professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University (1820–1851)
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Paolo Giovio (1483-1552) an Italian physician, historian, biographer, and prelate
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Patrick Colquhoun LLD (1745–1820) founder of the Thames River Police
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Paulus Merula, or Paul van Merle (1558-1607)Dutch jurist, classicist, historian, geographer and librarian
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Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764) English lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor
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Rev James Grahame (1765–1811) Scottish lawyer and poet
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Robert Aylett (1583?-1655) English lawyer and religious poet
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Samuel Pufendorf (1632-1694) German jurist, political philosopher, economist and historian
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Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn (1802-1880) Scottish jurist, politician and Lord Chief Justice
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Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605-1675) English lawyer, writer, parliamentarian and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England
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Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634) English barrister, judge, politician, and jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras
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Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634) English barrister, judge, politician, and jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras
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Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634) English barrister, judge, politician, and jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras
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Sir Edward Lake (1600-1674) eminent lawyer who became Advocate General of Ireland and was badly wounded fighting on the Royalist side in the Battle of Edgehill
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Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (c1638–1691) Lord Advocate
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Sir Henry Chauncy (1632-1719) English lawyer, topographer and antiquarian, author of the county history, The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire begun in 1680
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Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832) Scottish jurist, Whig politician and historian
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Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832) Scottish jurist, Whig politician and historian
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Sir John Glynne (1602-1666) Welsh lawyer of the Commonwealth and Restoration periods, who rose to become Lord Chief Justice of the Upper Bench, under Oliver Cromwell
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Sir John Hoskins, 2nd baronet (1634-1705) lawyer and natural philosopher
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Sir John More (1451-1530) lawyer, judge and father of Sir Thomas More
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Sir Leoline Jenkins (1625-1685) Welsh academic, diplomat, jurist and politician who served as Secretary of State from 1680 to 1684
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Sir Leoline Jenkins (1625-1685) Welsh academic, jurist and politician
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Sir Matthew Hale (1609-1676) English barrister, judge and lawyer
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Sir Matthew Hale (1609-1676) English barrister, judge and lawyer
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Sir Matthew Hale (1609-1676) English barrister, judge and lawyer
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Sir Richard Hutton (1560-1639) Judge
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Sir Robert Berkeley (1584-1656) Justice of the King’s Bench
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Sir Robert Heath (1575-1649) English judge and politician
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Sir Robert Heath (1575-1649) English judge and politician
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Sir Samuel Romilly (1757-1818) British lawyer, politician and legal reformer
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Sir Samuel Romilly (1757-1818) British legal reformer and abolitionist
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Sir Thomas Hope (d. 1646), Lord Advocate of Scotland
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Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, Renaissance humanist and councillor to Henry VIII
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Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, Renaissance humanist and councillor to Henry VIII
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Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795-1854) English judge, radical politician and author
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Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright and lawyer
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Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and lawyer
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Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and lawyer
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Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and lawyer
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Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and lawyer
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Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and lawyer
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Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) (statue by Greenshields)
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Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
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Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet (multiple portraits)
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Sir Walter Scott, The Abbotsford Family
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Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780) an English jurist, judge and Tory politician of the eighteenth century, most noted for writing the Commentaries on the Laws of England
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Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780) an English jurist, judge and Tory politician of the eighteenth century, most noted for writing the Commentaries on the Laws of England
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Sir William Grant (1752-1832) Scottish lawyer and MP
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Solon (c630-c560 BC) an Athenian statesman, lawmaker and poet who is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic and moral decline in archaic Athens
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Spencer Perceval (1762-1812) Tory politician and the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated
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Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry (1578-1640) prominent English lawyer, politician and judge
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Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry (1578-1640) prominent English lawyer, politician and judge
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Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry (1578-1640) prominent English lawyer, politician and judge
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Thomas Cromwell (c.1485-1540) Earl of Essex
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Thomas Cromwell (c.1485-1540) Earl of Essex
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Thomas Cromwell (c1485-1540) Earl of Essex
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Thomas Cromwell (c1485-1540) Earl of Essex
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Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex (1485-1540) English lawyer, statesman and chief minister to King Henry VIII
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Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex (1485-1540) English lawyer, statesman and chief minister to King Henry VIII
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Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley (1540 -1617) English nobleman and judge who served as Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor
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Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley (1540-1617) English nobleman and judge who served as Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor
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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American Founding Father and principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later the third President of the United States
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Thomas Lord Erskine (1750-1823) Lord Chancellor
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Thomas Muir of Huntershill (1765-1799)
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Twelve Advocates Who Plead Without Wigs including Walter Scott
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Walter Scott, Father of Sir Walter Scott
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William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882) English historical novelist who trained as a lawyer but gave it up and devoted himself to journalism and literature
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William Murray 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705-1793) British barrister, politician and judge
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William Murray 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705-1793) Scottish nobleman, barrister, politician and judge
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William Murray 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705-1793) Scottish nobleman, barrister, politician and judge
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William Murray 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705-1793) Scottish nobleman, barrister, politician and judge
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William Murray 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705-1793) Scottish nobleman, barrister, politician and judge
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William Prynne (1600-1669) an English lawyer, author, polemicist and political figure, was a prominent Puritan opponent of church policy under the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud
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William Roscoe (1753-1831) English historian, leading abolitionist, art collector, M.P., lawyer, banker, botanist and miscellaneous writer, author of ‘The Life of Lorenzo Medici’
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William Warham (1450-1532) Archbishop of Canterbury