Born Somerset. Speaker of the House of Commons 1580-3, Attorney General, 1581-92, and Lord Chief Justice of England 1592 - 1607. Presided at the trials of Sir Walter Raleigh in 1603 and of Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators in 1605.
c. 1594 occupied Friary House, N20.
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John Popham
Friary House Friary Park opened to the public on Saturday 7th May 1910 after ...
The last surviving Inn of Chancery. Attached to Gray's Inn. Things changed over time but, basically, Inns of Court were places where barristers lodged and worked, while Inns of Chancery were plac...
From the picture source website: "Modern in outlook, at Belmont & Lowe we value our heritage which dates back to 1756. From our roots in The Temple and The City comes our founding principle of ...
In 1972 a prison guard was murdered in Angola Prison, Louisiana, USA, where Herman Wallace, Robert King, and Albert Woodfox were prisoners. Wallace and Woodfox were convicted of the murder; King w...
Person, Law, Race Issues, Tragedy, USA
Philip Noble Fawcett was born on 7 April 1863 in Dublin, Ireland, the younger child of Henry Fawcett (1835-1882) and Mary Maria Fawcett née Noble (1834-1906). On 1 May 1863 he was baptised in St. P...
Person, Armed Forces, Law, Politics & Administration, Ireland
Lived in a cottage in Highgate West Hill, a deputy assistant judge, a zealous total abstainer, supporter of Bands of Hope. Temperance Standard Bearers of the Nineteenth Century: A Biographical ......
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