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 ...
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...
Serial Chairman. Chair of the Soho Housing Association in 1990. In view of the number of companies and groups that he's run, we're pretty sure we've got the right man. He was born on 20 July 1933 ...
Person, Armed Forces, Law, Liveries & Guilds, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration
A county court in the City of London, which is the successor to courts pre-dating the County Courts Act of 1846, which introduced the modern system of county courts. Under the Courts Act of 1971, i...
Born London. Lawyer and positivist. Supporter of many social causes. He introduced Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Edward Byrne-Jones. Died 36 Kensington Square.
Born in Lucé, near Domfront, Normandy, his name is also spelt 'de Luci'. He is first mentioned as High Sheriff of Essex, and later as Chief Justiciar to King Henry II. (Justiciar was roughly equiva...
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