High Court Judge. Came from Lincolnshire. From Plymounth Law Review we learn: "John Lawrance was Conservative MP for South Lincolnshire for ten years, from 1880 to 1890, until his appointment as a High Court judge....the appointment was ‘greeted with hoots of derision.’ The Law Times had this to say about it: This is a bad appointment, for although a popular man and a thorough English gentleman, Mr. Lawrance has no reputation as a lawyer, and has been rarely seen of recent years in the Royal Courts of Justice ..... 'Long' Lawrance {he had a habit of endlessly delaying the judgements in difficult cases} ... was a stupid man, a very ill-equipped lawyer, and a bad judge."
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John Compton Lawrance, QC, MP
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Dairy Supply Company - Directors
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Niblett Hall
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Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
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Francis Percy Hodes
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John Fettes
John Fettes was born on 24 February 1871 at 5 Warner Street, Southwark, Surrey (now Greater London), the second of the seven children of James Thomson Fettes (1843-1916) and Elizabeth Morrison Fett...
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Benjamin Franklin
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Thomas Earp
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Royal Coburg Theatre
SE1, The Cut, Old Vic Theatre
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Robert Clayton statue
SE1, St Thomas's Hospital, Millennium Garden
The inscription is quite badly damaged but we found a transcription in a 1776 book on the history of London, which is, we believe, very c...
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1 creator
Brown Dog statue
SW11, Battersea Park, Woodland Walk
See our page for the original statue for a description of the Brown Dog affair. This ended when, in 1910 the original statue was removed...
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